Motivational Quotes

Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

- Julie Morgenstern

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

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

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

10.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

11.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

12.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

13.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

14.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

15.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

16.

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

17.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

18.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

21.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

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

Williams, William Carlos

24.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

25.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

26.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

27.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

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

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

33.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

34.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

35.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

36.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

37.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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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

40.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

41.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

42.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

43.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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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

45.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

46.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

49.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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

Hugo, Victor