Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

12.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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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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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

18.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

29.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Auerbach, Red

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

37.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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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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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Jeph Jacques

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

42.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Lovers should also have their days off.