Motivational Quotes

Love

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Love

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

W. Somerset Maugham

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Bridges, Robert

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

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

10.

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.

11.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

12.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

13.

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

Alan Watts

14.

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

Scott Westerfeld

15.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

16.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

17.

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

18.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

23.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

24.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

25.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Wilde, Kim

28.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

29.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

30.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

31.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

32.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

33.

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

Clark, Melanie

34.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

36.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

37.

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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All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

39.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

40.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

41.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

42.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

43.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

44.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

46.

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

Youngman, Henny

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.