Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

12.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

13.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

21.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

24.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

25.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

29.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Mother Teresa

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hazlitt, William

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

Proverb

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda