Motivational Quotes

Love

Do all things with love.

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Love

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

Pascal, Blaise

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

10.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

11.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

12.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

15.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

16.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

18.

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

19.

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

Anouilh, Jean

20.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

21.

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

22.

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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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

24.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Jeph Jacques

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

28.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

29.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

30.

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.

31.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

32.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

33.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

34.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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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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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Martineau, Harriet

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

39.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

40.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

41.

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

42.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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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 in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.