Motivational Quotes

Love

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Love

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

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

Richardson, Nick

10.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

11.

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

Federman, Irwin

12.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

18.

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

Brooke, Rupert

19.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Bible

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

26.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

28.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

31.

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

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

Bible

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

34.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

38.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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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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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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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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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