Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

- Ginsberg, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

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

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

David Viscott

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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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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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Wieder, Marcia

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Nathan, George Jean

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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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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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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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace