Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

William Shakespeare

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

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

Rita Rudner

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

15.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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

Davies, Robertson

18.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

19.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

20.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

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

Rowland, Helen

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Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

23.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

24.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

27.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

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

Murdoch, Iris

29.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

30.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

35.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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Angelis, Barbara De

38.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

39.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

40.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

41.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

42.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

45.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

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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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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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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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.