Motivational Quotes

Love

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

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

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Proverb, Irish

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

21.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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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

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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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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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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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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