Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Nathan, George Jean

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

William Shakespeare

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

10.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

11.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

12.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Dryden, John

14.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

15.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

16.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

17.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

18.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

19.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

20.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

24.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

25.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

26.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

Rita Rudner

28.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

29.

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

30.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

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

Parker, Dorothy

32.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

33.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Mencken, H. L.

35.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

39.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Sand, George

41.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

42.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

43.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

45.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

46.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare