Motivational Quotes

Love

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Love

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

10.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

11.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

13.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

16.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

17.

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

Ferry, Brian

18.

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

Proverb, French

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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

21.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

22.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

24.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

25.

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 the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

27.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

28.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

29.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

31.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

32.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

33.

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

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

35.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

37.

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

38.

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

Carmichael, Amy

39.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

42.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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.

45.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

46.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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.

49.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

50.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.