Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Love

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

11.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

12.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

13.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

15.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

16.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

18.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Margaret Cho

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

25.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

26.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

34.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

35.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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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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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Shakespeare

42.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

44.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

45.

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

Bible

46.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

47.

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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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

49.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

50.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare