Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Sophocles

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

28.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

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

Law, William

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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Sarton, May

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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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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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

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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.

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

Peguy, Charles

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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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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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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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Lewis, Sinclair