Motivational Quotes

Love

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

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Best Quotes about Love

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Marlowe, Christopher

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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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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Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

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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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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

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By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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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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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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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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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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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.