Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

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

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

Crawford, Joan

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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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.

11.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

12.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

14.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

15.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

17.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

20.

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

Meredith, George

21.

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

Carl Jung

22.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

25.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

26.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

28.

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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

30.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

31.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

32.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

39.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

40.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

43.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

45.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.