Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

10.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

11.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

12.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

14.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

15.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

16.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

17.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

18.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

19.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

20.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

21.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

22.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

24.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

25.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

26.

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

27.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

29.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

35.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

37.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

38.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

41.

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

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Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Rossetti, Christina

45.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

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

47.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

48.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

49.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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