Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

- Macarius of Egypt, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

10.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

11.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

12.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

13.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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

15.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

17.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

18.

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.

Bernard, St.

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

20.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

21.

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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

26.

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

Osgood, Samuel

27.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

29.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

30.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Plato

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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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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

39.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

40.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

42.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.