Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

- Satir, Virginia

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Reik, Theodor

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

10.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

11.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

15.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

17.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

18.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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

Scherer, Paul

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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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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

John Sheffield

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

28.

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

William Shakespeare

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Confucius

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

33.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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

Anouilh, Jean

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

44.

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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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.