Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Love

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

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

William Shakespeare

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

10.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

11.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

12.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

13.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

14.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

15.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

18.

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

19.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

22.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

23.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jean Anouilh

25.

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

26.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

28.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

29.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

30.

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

31.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

32.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

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

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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.

42.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

John Sheffield

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

49.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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

Auerbach, Red