Motivational Quotes

Love

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

11.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

12.

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

13.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

14.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

15.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

16.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

17.

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

Aragon, Louis

18.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

21.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

25.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

30.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

32.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

33.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

34.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

35.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

40.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

41.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

42.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

43.

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

44.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

45.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

46.

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

Victor Hugo

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.