Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

10.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

11.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

13.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

14.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

16.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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

18.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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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

22.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

23.

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

Disney, Walt

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

25.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

28.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

30.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

31.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

32.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

33.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

34.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

38.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

39.

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

Sand, George

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

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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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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 is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

47.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

Hay, Louise L.

50.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya