Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Tomlin, Lily

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

11.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.

22.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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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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.

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

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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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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.