Motivational Quotes

Love

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

11.

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 the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

16.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Peter Ustinov

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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