Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

- Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Best Quotes about Love

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Davis, Bette

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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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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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George