Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

14.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

15.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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

Bourget, Paul

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

24.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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.

27.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

28.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

29.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

30.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

31.

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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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

34.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

47.

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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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.