Motivational Quotes

Love

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

- DiFranco, Ani

Best Quotes about Love

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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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

11.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

13.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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

Reik, Theodor

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Sophocles

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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

Jennifer Aniston

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

Toni Morrison

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

Elizabeth Aston

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

36.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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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

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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