Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

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

Ackerman, Diane

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

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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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

11.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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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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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

15.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

18.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

19.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

21.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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.

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

28.

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

Desai, Yogi

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

31.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

32.

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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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.

34.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

35.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

36.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Capote, Truman

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

45.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

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