Motivational Quotes

Love

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

- Russell, Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

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

Davis, Bette

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.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Richardson, Nick

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Toni Morrison

11.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

12.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

13.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

15.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

16.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

18.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

20.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

21.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

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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When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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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

27.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Sophocles

31.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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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

35.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

43.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De