Motivational Quotes

Love

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

- Yates, Douglas

Best Quotes about Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

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

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

10.

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

11.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

12.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

13.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

14.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

17.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

18.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

19.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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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

21.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

22.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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

25.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

26.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

28.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

32.

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

Michael Patrick King

33.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

40.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

42.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

45.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

48.

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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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De