Motivational Quotes

Love

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

- French, Marilyn

Best Quotes about Love

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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 marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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

Capote, Truman

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Jerome, St.

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Osgood, Samuel

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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

Hugo, Victor

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Erica Jong

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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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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent