Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Buddha

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

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Mcdonald, George

11.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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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

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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

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

Hugo, Victor

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

23.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

34.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Behn, Aphra

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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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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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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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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Youngman, Henny

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria