Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

- Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

10.

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

Jerome, St.

11.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

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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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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

36.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

45.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

47.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth