Motivational Quotes

Love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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.

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

Confucius

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

Dane, Frank

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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

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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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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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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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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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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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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

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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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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne