Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

10.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

11.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

12.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

13.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

14.

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

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

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

Sophocles

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

30.

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

David Viscott

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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.

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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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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

40.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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 the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

49.

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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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen