Motivational Quotes

Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Behn, Aphra

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Bible

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

11.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

15.

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

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

17.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

18.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

20.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

24.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

25.

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

William Shakespeare

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

28.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

33.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

34.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

35.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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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

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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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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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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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

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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'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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.