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

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Calvino, Italo

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

12.

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

13.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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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 is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

18.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

19.

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

Disney, Walt

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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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

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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

Blanton, Smiley

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

Youngman, Henny

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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

43.

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

Law, William

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice