Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

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

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

11.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

12.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Charles M. Schulz

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

21.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, Jewish

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If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Leunig, Michael

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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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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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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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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

32.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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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.

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Levine, Stephen

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

42.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

43.

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

44.

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

David Viscott

45.

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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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley