Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Van Gogh, Vincent

Best Quotes about Love

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

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

10.

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

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

14.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

15.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

16.

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

Proverb

17.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

18.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

20.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

25.

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

26.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

27.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Law, William

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

34.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

35.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

38.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

39.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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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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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.