Motivational Quotes

Love

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

- Barry, Lynda

Best Quotes about Love

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

DiFranco, Ani

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

11.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

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

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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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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

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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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

Confucius

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.