Motivational Quotes

Love

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

11.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

16.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

23.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

30.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

Buddha

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

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Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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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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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

45.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.