Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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

Murdoch, Iris

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

11.

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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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

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Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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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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Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

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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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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

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

Williams, William Carlos

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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He who is not impatient is not in love.