Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Best Quotes about Love

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

10.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

11.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

12.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

16.

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

17.

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

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

19.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

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

21.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

22.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

25.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

27.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Saltus, Edgar

29.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

31.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

32.

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

33.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

35.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

37.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

42.

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

43.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

44.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

47.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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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

49.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew