Motivational Quotes

Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Jean Anouilh

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

Proverb, Jewish

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

William Shakespeare

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

10.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

11.

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

Proverb, Japanese

12.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

18.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

25.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

26.

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

Anouilh, Jean

27.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

28.

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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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

30.

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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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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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

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

40.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.