Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

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

Strindberg, J. August

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

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

11.

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

Nathan, George Jean

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

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We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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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

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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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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

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

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And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

32.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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

Federman, Irwin

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The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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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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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.