Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Best Quotes about Love

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

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

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

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Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Southey, Robert

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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

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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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 seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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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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We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

31.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

Wilde, Kim

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

Youngman, Henny

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

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges