Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rita Rudner

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

10.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

11.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

12.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

13.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

15.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

16.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

17.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

18.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

19.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

20.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

21.

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

Burton, Robert

22.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

24.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

26.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

27.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

28.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

31.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

32.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

Bible

34.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

35.

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

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

37.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

39.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

40.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aristotle

42.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Augustine, St.

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

45.

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

46.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

49.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare