Motivational Quotes

Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Blanton, Smiley

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

Michael Patrick King

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

12.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

13.

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

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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

15.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

16.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

17.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

18.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

19.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

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

21.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

22.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

24.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

25.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

26.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

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

28.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

29.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

30.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

31.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

33.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

34.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

35.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

37.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

38.

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

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

42.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.