Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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 leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

12.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Aragon, Louis

18.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

19.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

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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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

26.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

27.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

29.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

30.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

31.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

33.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

34.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

35.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

36.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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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

38.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

39.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

40.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

45.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

47.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

49.

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

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth