Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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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.

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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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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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Vicious, Sid

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

39.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

40.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Proverb, Japanese

42.

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

Sophocles

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare