Motivational Quotes

Love

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

- Guthrie, Arlo

Best Quotes about Love

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

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

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

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

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

10.

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

11.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

12.

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

13.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

14.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

16.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

17.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

18.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

20.

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

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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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

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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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

27.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

29.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

32.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

33.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

34.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

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

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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

37.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

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

J. K. Rowling

41.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

42.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

46.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

48.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

49.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von