Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

John Sheffield

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Confucius

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

William Shakespeare

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

William Shakespeare

10.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

11.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

13.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

14.

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

15.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

16.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

17.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

19.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

20.

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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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

22.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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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

24.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

25.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

26.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

27.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

28.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

29.

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

30.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

Law, William

34.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

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

Horton, Doug

36.

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

37.

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

West, Mae

38.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

39.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

41.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

42.

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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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

44.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

45.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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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

47.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

48.

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

49.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George