Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

- Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Best Quotes about Love

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Donne, John

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Steindl-Rast, David

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

10.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

13.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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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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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

21.

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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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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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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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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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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

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

Menninger, Karl A.