Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

10.

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

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

15.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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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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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

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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 like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

20.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

30.

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

David Viscott

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Proverb

36.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

37.

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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Blanton, Smiley

40.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

45.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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