Motivational Quotes

Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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

Law, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Margaret Cho

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

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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

11.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

14.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

18.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

19.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

21.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

22.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

24.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

25.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

26.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

27.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

28.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

29.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

30.

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

Osgood, Samuel

31.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

32.

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

Levine, Stephen

33.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

34.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

35.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

36.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

39.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

40.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

42.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

43.

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 talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.