Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Auerbach, Red

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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 only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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

John of the Cross, St.

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

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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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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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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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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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

Bible

27.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

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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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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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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.