Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Brooke, Rupert

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ferry, Brian

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

11.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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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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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

18.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

24.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

John of the Cross, St.

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

40.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen