Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

- Smith, Wolfman Jack

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

10.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

11.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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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 not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Horton, Doug

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare