Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Love

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Jeph Jacques

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

11.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Buber, Martin

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Chambless, David

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

36.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Randy K. Milholland

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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

William Shakespeare

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor