Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

10.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

11.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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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

13.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

14.

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

Bible

15.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

19.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

20.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

21.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

22.

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

Traherne, Thomas

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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.

24.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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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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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

28.

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

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

31.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

32.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

33.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

35.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Crawshaw, Richard

37.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

40.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

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

42.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

43.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

44.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

46.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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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

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

Martineau, Harriet