Motivational Quotes

Love

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Love

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

10.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

12.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

14.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

15.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

16.

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.

17.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

18.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

19.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

21.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

22.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

23.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

24.

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

25.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

26.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Reagan, Ronald

29.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

30.

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

31.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

32.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

33.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

34.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

36.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

40.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

41.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

42.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

43.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

45.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

46.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare