Motivational Quotes

Love

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

10.

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

Ackerman, Diane

11.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

12.

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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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

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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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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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

19.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

23.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

24.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

25.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

26.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

27.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

30.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

31.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

32.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

36.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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

40.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

44.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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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.

46.

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 never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

48.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

49.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.