Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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 only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

18.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

20.

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

21.

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

Disney, Walt

22.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

24.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

26.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

31.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Law, William

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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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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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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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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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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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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

50.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor