Motivational Quotes

Love

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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

Real Live Preacher

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

10.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

11.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

12.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

13.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

14.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

15.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

16.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

17.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

20.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

21.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

22.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

31.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

32.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

33.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

34.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

35.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

36.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

38.

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

39.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

40.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

41.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

43.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

45.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

46.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

47.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

49.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

50.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin