Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

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

William Shakespeare

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Allen, Woody

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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

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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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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

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

Charles M. Schulz

18.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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

Buddha

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

31.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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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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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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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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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel