Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

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

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Fromm, Erich

10.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

11.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Youngman, Henny

19.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

20.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

21.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

24.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

28.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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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

30.

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

31.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

32.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

34.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

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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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.