Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

- Bette Davis

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Horton, Doug

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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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

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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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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

27.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Rowland, Helen

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.