Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Love

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Jean Anouilh

10.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

11.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

12.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

13.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

14.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

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

Du Coeur

20.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

21.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

22.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

Wilkerson, David

25.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

28.

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

Kempis, Thomas

29.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

30.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

31.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

32.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

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

Groening, Matt

34.

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

Barry, Lynda

35.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

36.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

38.

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

39.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

40.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

44.

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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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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