Motivational Quotes

Love

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Best Quotes about Love

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Ashley, Elizabeth

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

10.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

11.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

12.

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

13.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

14.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

15.

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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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

18.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

20.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

21.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

23.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

24.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

27.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

29.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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

Plato

34.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

35.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

39.

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

40.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

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

42.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

44.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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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

49.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

50.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.