Motivational Quotes

Love

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

- Brown, Rita Mae

Best Quotes about Love

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Elizabeth Aston

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Verse, A Haiku

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Capote, Truman

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Hugo, Victor

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane