Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Reagan, Ronald

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

15.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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 more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Federman, Irwin

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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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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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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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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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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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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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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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'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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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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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

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel