Motivational Quotes

Love

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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

Peguy, Charles

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Jean Anouilh

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

17.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

19.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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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

36.

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

Laing, R. D.

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

41.

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

42.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

James, William

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare