Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Proust, Marcel

11.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

14.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

15.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

16.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

17.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

19.

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

Wilde, Kim

20.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

21.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

22.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

23.

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

24.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

25.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

26.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

28.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

29.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

30.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

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

Youngman, Henny

32.

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

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

35.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

36.

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

Peter Ustinov

37.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

38.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

39.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

41.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

43.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

44.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

45.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

46.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.