Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Crawshaw, Richard

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

10.

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

Traherne, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Saltus, Edgar

13.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

14.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

15.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

16.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

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

18.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

19.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

20.

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

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

24.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

'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

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

31.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

34.

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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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

36.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

37.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

41.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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