Motivational Quotes

Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

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

Fromm, Erich

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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.

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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Alan Watts

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Ovid

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield