Motivational Quotes

Love

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Love

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Mcdonald, George

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

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Verse, A Haiku

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

Turner, Ted

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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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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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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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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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

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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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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Rita Rudner