Motivational Quotes

Love

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about 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

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

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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 possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

12.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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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

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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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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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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

Allen, Woody

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba