Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hoffman, Lisa

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

William Shakespeare

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Jerome, St.

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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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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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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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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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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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