Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- Robert Frost

Best Quotes about Love

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Rowland, Helen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Jennifer Aniston

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

30.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De