Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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.

14.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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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

17.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Jennifer Aniston

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

Byron, Lord

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

23.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

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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

28.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Osgood, Samuel

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

32.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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

Bridges, Robert

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald