Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

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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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

12.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

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

15.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

16.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

17.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

18.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

19.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

20.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

26.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

27.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

31.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.

33.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

34.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

35.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

42.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

43.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

45.

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

William Shakespeare

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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

47.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James