Motivational Quotes

Love

Be that self which one truly is.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Love

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

10.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

11.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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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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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

16.

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.

17.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

20.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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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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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

28.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

31.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

32.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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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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It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

36.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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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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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 like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.