Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plato

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

11.

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

Rossetti, Christina

12.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

13.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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

Augustine, St.

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

19.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

20.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

21.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

24.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

25.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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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

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

Federman, Irwin

34.

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

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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