Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hertl, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Menninger, Karl A.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

10.

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

Wieder, Marcia

11.

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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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

17.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

19.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

20.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

22.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Fromm, Erich

27.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

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.

31.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

34.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Laing, R. D.

36.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

37.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

43.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

44.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

45.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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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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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin