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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

14.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

16.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

17.

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

18.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

19.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

20.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

21.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

22.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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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

24.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

25.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

29.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

30.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

31.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

32.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

34.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

35.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

36.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

43.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

44.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

47.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

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

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Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong