Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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

Davis, Bette

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

12.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

13.

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

14.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

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.

16.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

17.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

19.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

20.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

21.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

National Lampoon

25.

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

Carl Jung

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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

27.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

28.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

29.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

31.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

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

Rossetti, Christina

33.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

34.

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

Paolo Giordano

35.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

36.

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

37.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

38.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

39.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.