Motivational Quotes

Love

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Love

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Duffy, Maureen

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

10.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

11.

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

Law, William

12.

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

Confucius

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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

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

15.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

16.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

18.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

20.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

21.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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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

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Pavese, Cesare

26.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

27.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

30.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

31.

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

32.

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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Elizabeth Aston

38.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

39.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

40.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

41.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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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

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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

John of the Cross, St.

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.