Motivational Quotes

Love

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best Quotes about Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

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

Fromm, Erich

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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

Capote, Truman

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Youngman, Henny

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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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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

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

40.

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

Leunig, Michael

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He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

43.

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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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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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

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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel