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

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Aragon, Louis

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After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Brooke, Rupert

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Confucius

24.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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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

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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Strindberg, J. August

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

35.

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

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

William Shakespeare

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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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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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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

49.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner