Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

10.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Paolo Giordano

13.

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

14.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

15.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

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

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

18.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

26.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

29.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

30.

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

31.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

32.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

33.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

35.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

39.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

40.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

41.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

42.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

43.

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

Julie Morgenstern

44.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.