Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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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 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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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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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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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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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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 thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

35.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Ice T

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

40.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

43.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Nathan, George Jean

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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare