Motivational Quotes

Love

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

- Becker, Ernest

Best Quotes about Love

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Becker, Ernest

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley