Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gordon, Rabbi J.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

10.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

12.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

13.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

17.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

19.

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

Jeph Jacques

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

22.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

23.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

24.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

25.

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

Davies, Robertson

26.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

27.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

28.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

29.

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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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

31.

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

32.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

33.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

34.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

35.

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

36.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

37.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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

Toni Morrison

39.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

40.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

41.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

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

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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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

45.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

48.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.