Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Love

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Confucius

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

10.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

11.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

12.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

13.

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

14.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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

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

Capote, Truman

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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 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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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Connolly, Cyril

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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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

27.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

31.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

32.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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

Ice T

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

40.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

45.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

47.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

48.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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

Euripides