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

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

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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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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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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

Fromm, Erich

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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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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What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Law, William

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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