Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

- Capote, Truman

Best Quotes about Love

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Ovid

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

Carmichael, Amy

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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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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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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

National Lampoon

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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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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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Sophocles

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

Ice T

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.