Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Real Live Preacher

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

10.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

12.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

16.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

17.

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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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

23.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wieder, Marcia

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

28.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

29.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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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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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

36.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

39.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

40.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

41.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

43.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt