Motivational Quotes

Love

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Love

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

Meredith, George

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

10.

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

11.

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

Croft, Roy

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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

16.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Hertl, Nick

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

21.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

29.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

30.

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

Erica Jong

31.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

32.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

33.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

34.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

35.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

Brooke, Rupert

38.

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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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

40.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

41.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

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

Sophocles

44.

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

45.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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

Buscaglia, Leo

48.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

49.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive