Motivational Quotes

Love

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

- Maupassant, Guy de

Best Quotes about Love

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

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

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

Margaret Cho

10.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

13.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

14.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

18.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

22.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

25.

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

Thurber, James

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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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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

30.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

31.

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

Fromm, Erich

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

37.

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

38.

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

39.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

40.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.