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

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

10.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

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

Julie Morgenstern

12.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

13.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

14.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

15.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

16.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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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

18.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

20.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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

Bertrand Russell

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

26.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

27.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

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

30.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

32.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

33.

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

William Penn

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

36.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

39.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

40.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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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

45.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt