Motivational Quotes

Love

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Sophocles

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

11.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

13.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

14.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Byron, Lord

21.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

24.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

25.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

26.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

29.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Brown, Rita Mae

31.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

32.

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

Horton, Doug

33.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

35.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

36.

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

37.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

39.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

40.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

41.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

43.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

45.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

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My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

49.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales