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

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

William Shakespeare

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

11.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

12.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

13.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

14.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

15.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

16.

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

Southey, Robert

17.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

19.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

21.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

22.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

29.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

30.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

31.

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

32.

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

Pythagoras

33.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

34.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

35.

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

James, William

36.

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

37.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

40.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

43.

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.

44.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

45.

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

Bible

46.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

47.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

48.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

49.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George