Motivational Quotes

Love

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

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

Confucius

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Law, William

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

10.

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

11.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

12.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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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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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

19.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

24.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

25.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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 sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

29.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

30.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

31.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

32.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

33.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

34.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

35.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

36.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

40.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

44.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

45.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

46.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.