Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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

Clark, Melanie

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

Swift, Jonathan

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Thoreau, Henry David

23.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

25.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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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

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

28.

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

Disney, Walt

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

32.

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

33.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

35.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

36.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Dane, Frank

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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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 is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas