Motivational Quotes

Love

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Love

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

11.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

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

Jeph Jacques

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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

Anderson, Margaret

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

Auerbach, Red

18.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

22.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

25.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

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

John Sheffield

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

38.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

40.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

43.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan