Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

- Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Best Quotes about Love

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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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 is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry