Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

- Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

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

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

William Shakespeare

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Wilde, Kim

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

Anouilh, Jean

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

Augustine, St.

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Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Confucius

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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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

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Bible

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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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

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel