Motivational Quotes

Love

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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 swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

19.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

20.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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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

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Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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

Lao-Tzu

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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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's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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