Motivational Quotes

Love

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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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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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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

Fromm, Erich

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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.

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare