Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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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

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Proverb, French

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

37.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Clark, Melanie

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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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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus