Motivational Quotes

Love

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Love

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Clark, Melanie

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

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

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

William Shakespeare

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Jerome, St.

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