Motivational Quotes

Love

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

James, William

10.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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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

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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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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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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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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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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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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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

28.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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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

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Jane Austen

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

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Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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 must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.