Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

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

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

10.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

11.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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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

15.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

17.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

19.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

20.

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

21.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

23.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

26.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

29.

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

30.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

31.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

32.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

33.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

34.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

36.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

38.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

39.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

40.

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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

43.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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

Leunig, Michael