Motivational Quotes

Love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Auerbach, Red

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Law, William

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

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

10.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bertrand Russell

13.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

14.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

15.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

18.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

19.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

21.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

23.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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 is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

27.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

28.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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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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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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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

William Shakespeare

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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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

40.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

42.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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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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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

47.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Confucius

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld