Motivational Quotes

Love

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

- Stendhal, Henri B.

Best Quotes about Love

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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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

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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

18.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

24.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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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The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

28.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

29.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

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

41.

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving