Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Sand, George

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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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

11.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

12.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

18.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

20.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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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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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

28.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

30.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

31.

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

Barry, Lynda

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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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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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.