Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Love

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

10.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

11.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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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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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

21.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

22.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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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

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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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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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

34.

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

Hugo, Victor

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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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 regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn