Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

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

Calvino, Italo

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

10.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

11.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

13.

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

14.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

16.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

17.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

18.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

20.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

21.

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

Mencken, H. L.

22.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

23.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

25.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

26.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

27.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

28.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

30.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Strindberg, J. August

32.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

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

34.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

35.

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

Hugo, Victor

36.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

37.

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

38.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

40.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

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

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

43.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

44.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

45.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

49.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

50.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

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