Motivational Quotes

Love

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

- Carl Jung

Best Quotes about Love

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

11.

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

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

14.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

15.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

16.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

17.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

18.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

21.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

22.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

23.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

24.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

25.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

26.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

27.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

28.

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

Federman, Irwin

29.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

30.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

31.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

33.

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

34.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

35.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

36.

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

37.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

38.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

39.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

40.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

41.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

42.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

43.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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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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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

50.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar