Motivational Quotes

Love

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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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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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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

William Shakespeare

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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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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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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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.