Motivational Quotes

Love

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

- M. Scott Peck

Best Quotes about Love

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

Law, William

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

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

Federman, Irwin

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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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

11.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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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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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Guthrie, Arlo

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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 will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

27.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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.

30.

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.

31.

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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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

William Shakespeare

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Julie Morgenstern

41.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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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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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Friedrich Nietzsche