Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor, Jeremy

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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 ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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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

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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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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

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Law, William

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

William Shakespeare

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

Heinlein, Robert

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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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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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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

DiFranco, Ani

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.