Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Love

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

10.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

12.

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

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

Orwell, George

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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

15.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

16.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

18.

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

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

21.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

23.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

24.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

25.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

27.

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

Duras, Marguerite

28.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

29.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

34.

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

35.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

36.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

40.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

41.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

42.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

43.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Levine, Stephen

46.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

49.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

50.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.