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

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Ackerman, Diane

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

17.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

20.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

21.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

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I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

24.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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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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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

41.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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

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

Hoffman, Lisa

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris