Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Bertrand Russell

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

18.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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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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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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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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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

43.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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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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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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

49.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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My love admits no qualifying dross.