Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

Mother Teresa

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

10.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Anouilh, Jean

14.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

15.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

16.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

17.

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

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

21.

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

Pavese, Cesare

22.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

23.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

24.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

25.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

National Lampoon

27.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

32.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

33.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

34.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

35.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

36.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

37.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

38.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

40.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

41.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

42.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

44.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

45.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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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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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.