Motivational Quotes

Love

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.

Best Quotes about Love

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

10.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

11.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

13.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Peguy, Charles

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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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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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

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

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

22.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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

William Shakespeare

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

27.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

29.

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 talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

48.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich