Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Love

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Margaret Cho

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

10.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

13.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

16.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

17.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

18.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

19.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

20.

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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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

25.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

31.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

39.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

40.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

48.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

50.

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.