Motivational Quotes

Love

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

- Dworkin, Andrea

Best Quotes about Love

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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

Stravinsky, Igor

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

John Sheffield

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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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 leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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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 a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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

Laing, R. D.

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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I shall always be a priest of love.