Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

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

Erica Jong

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

Updike, John

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

Turner, Ted

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Leunig, Michael

10.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

11.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

12.

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

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

27.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

28.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

29.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

30.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

35.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

36.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

43.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

44.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

45.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean