Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to know God is to love many things.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

11.

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

12.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Scherer, Paul

15.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

16.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

17.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

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One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

20.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

21.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

22.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

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

28.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Murdoch, Iris

31.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Lao-Tzu

33.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

34.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

35.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

36.

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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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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

40.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

41.

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

42.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

43.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

45.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

48.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

50.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt