Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

- Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Best Quotes about Love

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

11.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

12.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

22.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

30.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

31.

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

Jeanne Moreau

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

William Shakespeare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Leunig, Michael

43.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah