Motivational Quotes

Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Love

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Hugo, Victor

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.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

10.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

11.

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

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

13.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

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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.

17.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

27.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Youngman, Henny

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Harrigan, John

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl