Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Fromm, Erich

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Strindberg, J. August

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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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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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Jennifer Aniston

29.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

39.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

42.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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

William Shakespeare

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt