Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Confucius

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

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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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

12.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

13.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

14.

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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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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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

17.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

18.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

24.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

25.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

26.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerome, St.

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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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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

34.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

40.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

41.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

43.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

44.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

45.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.