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

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

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

Capote, Truman

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Elizabeth Aston

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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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

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.

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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

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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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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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

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

David Viscott

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If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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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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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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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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

33.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

36.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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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 is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Horton, Doug

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur