Motivational Quotes

Love

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Sophocles

10.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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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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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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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

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

Rowland, Helen

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy