Motivational Quotes

Love

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Love

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Jennifer Aniston

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

10.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

11.

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

12.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

13.

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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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

17.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

18.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

21.

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

22.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

23.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

25.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Randy K. Milholland

28.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

30.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

31.

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

Margaret Cho

32.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

33.

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

Duras, Marguerite

34.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

37.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

38.

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

39.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

40.

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

Vicious, Sid

41.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

42.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

46.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

47.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

48.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.