Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Carl Jung

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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

11.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

12.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

17.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

21.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

24.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

25.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

26.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

31.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

32.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

33.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

40.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

41.

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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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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