Motivational Quotes

Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Love

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

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

10.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

13.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

15.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Youngman, Henny

20.

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

21.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

22.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

23.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

25.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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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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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

28.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

29.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

30.

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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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

33.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

34.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

35.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

37.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

39.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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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

42.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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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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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.