Motivational Quotes

Love

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

- Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Best Quotes about Love

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

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

10.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

11.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

12.

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

13.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

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

Dryden, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

18.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

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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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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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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

23.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

24.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

25.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

29.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

30.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

34.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

35.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

40.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

41.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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