Motivational Quotes

Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Hugo, Victor

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

10.

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

11.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

12.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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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

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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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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

18.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

19.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

20.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

21.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

22.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

24.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

25.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

30.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

31.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

32.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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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.

34.

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

Brown, David

35.

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

Hay, Louise L.

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

37.

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

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

39.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

40.

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

Pythagoras

41.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

45.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

49.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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