Motivational Quotes

Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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

Bacon, Francis

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

11.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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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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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

William Shakespeare

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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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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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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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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

23.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Toni Morrison

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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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

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

48.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin