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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Allen, Woody

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Blanton, Smiley

10.

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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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

12.

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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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Confucius

15.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

16.

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

Auerbach, Red

18.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

21.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

26.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

27.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

28.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

29.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

32.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

33.

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

34.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

35.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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

Hugo, Victor

37.

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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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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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

42.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

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

Sophocles

44.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

45.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

48.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.