Motivational Quotes

Love

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

- Southey, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fromm, Erich

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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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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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

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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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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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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

Sophocles

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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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There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

Erica Jong

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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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