Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

- Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Best Quotes about Love

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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

Steindl-Rast, David

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

10.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

13.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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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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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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

18.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

19.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

21.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

30.

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

Verse, A Haiku

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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

34.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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

Rowland, Helen

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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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.