Motivational Quotes

Love

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

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

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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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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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

22.

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

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

Law, William

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Reik, Theodor

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

32.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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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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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen