Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

- Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Best Quotes about Love

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.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

11.

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

Julie Morgenstern

12.

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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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

15.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

16.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

18.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

20.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

21.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

23.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

24.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

25.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

Elizabeth Aston

27.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerome, St.

29.

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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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

31.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

32.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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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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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

38.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

43.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

44.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

45.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

46.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John