Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

11.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

14.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

15.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

16.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

17.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

18.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

19.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

21.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

22.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

23.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

24.

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

26.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

27.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

28.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

29.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

30.

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.

31.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

34.

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

35.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

36.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

37.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

38.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

39.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

40.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

41.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

42.

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

43.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

46.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

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Teach only love for that is what you are.