Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen