Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Smith, Sydney

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dyer, Wayne

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

10.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

12.

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

Alan Watts

13.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

14.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

15.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

17.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

18.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

21.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

23.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

24.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

25.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

26.

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

27.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

29.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

32.

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

33.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

34.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

35.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

37.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

38.

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.

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

43.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

Capote, Truman

47.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

48.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

49.

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

50.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare