Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Turner, Rev. Dale

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Reik, Theodor

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Charles M. Schulz

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

10.

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

11.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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

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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

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

24.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

26.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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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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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

30.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

31.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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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.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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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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If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

43.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

44.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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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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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret