Motivational Quotes

Love

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

- Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Jeph Jacques

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

11.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

12.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

15.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

17.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

18.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

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.

21.

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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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

23.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

25.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

26.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

27.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

30.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

31.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

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

33.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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

Bridges, Robert

40.

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.

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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

Auerbach, Red

45.

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

46.

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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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

48.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

49.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

Donne, John