Motivational Quotes

Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

10.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

11.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

14.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

15.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

19.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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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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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

27.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

28.

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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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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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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, 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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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

47.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides