Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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

William Shakespeare

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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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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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Barry, Lynda

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

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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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

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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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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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

40.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

41.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

43.

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

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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.