Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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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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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.