Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Proverb, Jewish

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

10.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

11.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

17.

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

18.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

22.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

39.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

45.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

46.

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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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

William Shakespeare