Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Clark, Melanie

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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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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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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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

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

33.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

40.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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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

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.