Motivational Quotes

Love

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Dyer, Wayne

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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.

10.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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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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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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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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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

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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's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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

Brown, David

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

35.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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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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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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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

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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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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

43.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake