Motivational Quotes

Love

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hugo, Victor

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Horton, Doug

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

11.

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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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

25.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Federman, Irwin

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Buber, Martin

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Ferry, Brian

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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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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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

46.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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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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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van