Motivational Quotes

Love

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Love

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Shakespeare, William

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Jennifer Aniston

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Proverb

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

James, William

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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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von