Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

13.

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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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

16.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

17.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

18.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

20.

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

21.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

22.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

William Penn

25.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

26.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

27.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

28.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

29.

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

Williams, William Carlos

30.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

31.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

32.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

34.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

35.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

38.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

39.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

41.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

42.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Angelis, Barbara De

44.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

45.

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

Plato

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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