Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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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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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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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

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

Voltaire

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

32.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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 an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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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 makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.