Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Love

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

William Shakespeare

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

12.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

13.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

14.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

15.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

16.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

17.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

18.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

19.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

20.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

21.

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

22.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

23.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

24.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

27.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

28.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

29.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

30.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

31.

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

Southey, Robert

32.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

33.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

34.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Jennifer Aniston

36.

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

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

38.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

40.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

41.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

42.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

44.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

45.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

46.

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

Dane, Frank

47.

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

Strindberg, J. August

48.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

50.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La