Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about 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

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

12.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

13.

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

Willis, Bruce

14.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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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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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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

Elizabeth Aston

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

25.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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

32.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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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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

38.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

39.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

41.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Jerome, St.

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.