Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

- Williamson, Marianne

Best Quotes about Love

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Williamson, Marianne

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril