Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

13.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

14.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

15.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

18.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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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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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

25.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

32.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

James, William

37.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Peguy, Charles

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Smith, Sydney

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

43.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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

William Shakespeare

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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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