Motivational Quotes

Love

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Dryden, John

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

10.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

11.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

12.

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

Bible

13.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

15.

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

Sarton, May

16.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

17.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

18.

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

19.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

20.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

24.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

25.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

26.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

27.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

30.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

31.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

32.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

33.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

34.

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.

35.

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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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

40.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

41.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

42.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

43.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

44.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

46.

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

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

48.

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 conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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

Fox, Emmet