Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

Jeanne Moreau

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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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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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

William Shakespeare

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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 what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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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

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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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

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

John Sheffield

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Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.