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

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Randy K. Milholland

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

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

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Greer, Germaine

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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

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

David Viscott

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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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

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

39.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.