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

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

17.

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

Du Coeur

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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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 means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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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

44.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.