Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

Horton, Doug

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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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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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Stravinsky, Igor

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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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 is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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

Duffy, Maureen

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Southey, Robert

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

Ackerman, Diane

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carmichael, Amy