Motivational Quotes

Love

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buscaglia, Leo

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

10.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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 seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

15.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

17.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

18.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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

23.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

24.

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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

William Shakespeare

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

31.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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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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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buber, Martin

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

48.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.