Motivational Quotes

Love

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

- Anton Chekhov

Best Quotes about Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

12.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

13.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

14.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

15.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

16.

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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

18.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

26.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

29.

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

30.

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

Law, William

31.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

35.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

36.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

37.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

38.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

39.

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

Rita Rudner

40.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

41.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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

48.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis