Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Best Quotes about Love

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

11.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

12.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

14.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

16.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

21.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

23.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

24.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

25.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

26.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

27.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

28.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

29.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

30.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

32.

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

Federman, Irwin

33.

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

Rita Rudner

34.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

35.

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

Carroll, Pat

36.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

37.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

38.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

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

40.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

42.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

43.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

44.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

45.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

46.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

48.

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

49.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

50.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey