Motivational Quotes

Love

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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

Mcdonald, George

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

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

11.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

18.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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

Augustine, St.

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

Confucius

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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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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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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.

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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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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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb, French

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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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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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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