Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

- Richardson, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

W. Somerset Maugham

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

10.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

11.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

12.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

13.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

14.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

15.

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

Desai, Yogi

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

Diane Ackerman

18.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

22.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

23.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

24.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

25.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

28.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

29.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Duras, Marguerite

36.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

38.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

43.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

44.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

45.

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

46.

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

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

48.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

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The hottest love has the coldest end.