Motivational Quotes

Love

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

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

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

10.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

11.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

12.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

16.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

17.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

18.

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

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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

20.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

22.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

23.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

25.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

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

27.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

28.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

30.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

35.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

37.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

38.

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

39.

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

Tomlin, Lily

40.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

41.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

43.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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.

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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

46.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

47.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

48.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

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

Paolo Giordano

50.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine