Motivational Quotes

Love

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

- John Sheffield

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Turner, Ted

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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

11.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

15.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

Pavese, Cesare

17.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

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

Disney, Walt

19.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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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

21.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

22.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

23.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

25.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

30.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

31.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

32.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

33.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Brookner, Anita

38.

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

National Lampoon

39.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

40.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

41.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

42.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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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

48.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

49.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil