Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about 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

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Saltus, Edgar

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Julie Morgenstern

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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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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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Dane, Frank

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

Buber, Martin

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris