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

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

Hay, Louise L.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

10.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

11.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

14.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

15.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

17.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

18.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

24.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

27.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

28.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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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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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

38.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

39.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

41.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

42.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

43.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

45.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

46.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

49.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

50.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite