Motivational Quotes

Love

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

William Shakespeare

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dyer, Wayne

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Bourget, Paul

11.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

16.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

17.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

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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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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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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

33.

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.

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

35.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas