Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

William Shakespeare

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

10.

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

Jean Anouilh

11.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

12.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

13.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

21.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

24.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

28.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

33.

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

Disney, Walt

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

35.

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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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

40.

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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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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

44.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

45.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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He is not a lover who does not love forever.