Motivational Quotes

Love

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

- Jeff Melvoin

Best Quotes about Love

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Desai, Yogi

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

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

10.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

11.

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

12.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

13.

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

Traherne, Thomas

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

18.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

19.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

20.

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

21.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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

Proverb, Jewish

24.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

28.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

29.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

30.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

31.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

32.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

34.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

35.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

36.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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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

40.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

42.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

43.

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

Sophocles

44.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

46.

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

49.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

50.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John