Motivational Quotes

Love

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

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

William Shakespeare

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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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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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

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Chambless, David

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

William Shakespeare

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I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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

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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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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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

36.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Brookner, Anita

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.