Motivational Quotes

Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch

Best Quotes about Love

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Proverb

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

10.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

18.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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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

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

29.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

William Shakespeare

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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

Toni Morrison

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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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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.