Motivational Quotes

Love

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Love

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Reik, Theodor

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

10.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

11.

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

Michael Patrick King

12.

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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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

17.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

18.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

19.

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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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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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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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Bible

32.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

33.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

36.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

41.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]