Motivational Quotes

Love

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

- Sand, George

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

11.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

12.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

13.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

14.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

Plato

16.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Capote, Truman

18.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

20.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

21.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

22.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

29.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

34.

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

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

38.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

42.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

45.

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

Bible

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Rita Rudner

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We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry