Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Love

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

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

10.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

11.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

12.

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

13.

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

Wilde, Kim

14.

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

Richardson, Nick

15.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

17.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

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

Davis, Bette

19.

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

20.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

24.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

25.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

26.

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

Lennon, John

27.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

28.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

29.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

30.

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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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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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

33.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

35.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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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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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

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

Croft, Roy

40.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

41.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

43.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

45.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

48.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

49.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare