Motivational Quotes

Love

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Love

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 everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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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

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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

Law, William

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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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