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

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

10.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

11.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

15.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

16.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

17.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

18.

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

19.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

20.

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

William Penn

21.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

22.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

23.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

24.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

25.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

26.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

27.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

28.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

31.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

32.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

33.

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

34.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

35.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

36.

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

37.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

38.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

39.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

40.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

42.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

43.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

44.

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

John Sheffield

45.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

46.

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

Jennifer Aniston

47.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

48.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

49.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

50.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche