Motivational Quotes

Love

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

- Dryden, John

Best Quotes about Love

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

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

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

23.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Brown, David

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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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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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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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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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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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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Rita Rudner

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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 means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.