Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

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

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

11.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

13.

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

Jeph Jacques

14.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

21.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

23.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

27.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

28.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

30.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

34.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

41.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

45.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

46.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.