Motivational Quotes

Love

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

- French, Marilyn

Best Quotes about Love

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

10.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

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

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

19.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

24.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

25.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Rossetti, Christina

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

30.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

31.

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

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

35.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

36.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

38.

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

39.

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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

43.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

44.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

45.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

49.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare