Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hazlitt, William

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Parker, Dorothy

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

10.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

11.

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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You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Auerbach, Red

15.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

18.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

19.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

25.

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

26.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

30.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

31.

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

Proverb, Irish

32.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

33.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

34.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

William Shakespeare

40.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

43.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

44.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

45.

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

Duras, Marguerite

46.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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