Motivational Quotes

Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

12.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

13.

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

Jeph Jacques

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Kim

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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 not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

20.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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The one who loves least controls the relationship.

23.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

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

Peter Ustinov

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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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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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

30.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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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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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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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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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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

43.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

45.

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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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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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 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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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce