Motivational Quotes

Love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Love

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Buber, Martin

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

William Shakespeare

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

12.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

13.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

16.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

17.

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.

18.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

21.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

22.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

23.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

25.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

30.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

31.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

33.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

34.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

36.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

38.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

40.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

41.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

42.

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

Jeanne Moreau

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Margaret Cho

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John