Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Horton, Doug

Best Quotes about Love

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

10.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

11.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

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

Hazlitt, William

13.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

14.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

15.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

16.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Osgood, Samuel

19.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

20.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

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

Marlowe, Christopher

22.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

25.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

Auerbach, Red

32.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

34.

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

35.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

36.

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

Paolo Giordano

37.

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

38.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

40.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

42.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

43.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

44.

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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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

46.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

48.

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

Real Live Preacher

49.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John