Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

- Rand, Ayn

Best Quotes about Love

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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.

12.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

13.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

14.

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

Real Live Preacher

15.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

18.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

19.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

32.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

33.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Bertrand Russell

45.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl