Motivational Quotes

Love

My love admits no qualifying dross.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

William Shakespeare

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

National Lampoon

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

12.

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

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

17.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

18.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

19.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

20.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

22.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

23.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

24.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Buddha

29.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

32.

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

Verse, A Haiku

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

35.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

36.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

37.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

38.

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

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

40.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

41.

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

42.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

43.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

44.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

45.

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

46.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

47.

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

Bible

48.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.