Motivational Quotes

Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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

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

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

Victor Hugo

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

11.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

12.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

18.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

20.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

21.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

22.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

24.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

25.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

28.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

30.

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

Sarton, May

31.

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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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

33.

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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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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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

36.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

39.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

40.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

41.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

42.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

43.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

44.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

45.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

46.

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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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.