Motivational Quotes

Love

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

- Henry Bromel

Best Quotes about Love

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Blanton, Smiley

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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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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

11.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

12.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

13.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

15.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

16.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

18.

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

19.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

20.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

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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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

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

24.

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

John Sheffield

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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

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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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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

33.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

34.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

35.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

36.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

42.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

43.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

44.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

45.

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

46.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry