Motivational Quotes

Love

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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

Davies, Robertson

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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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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

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Randy K. Milholland

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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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

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.