Motivational Quotes

Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Crawshaw, Richard

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

10.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

11.

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

Rowland, Helen

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

15.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

16.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

18.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

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

Wieder, Marcia

20.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

21.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Jean Anouilh

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

27.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

28.

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

29.

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

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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

31.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

32.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

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

Turner, Ted

34.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

35.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Sarton, May

40.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

42.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

44.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

45.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

46.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid