Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

William Shakespeare

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

Jane Austen

10.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

11.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

14.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

15.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

16.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

17.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

18.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

24.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

25.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

26.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

32.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

33.

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

Bourget, Paul

34.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Meredith, George

37.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

38.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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

Dyer, Wayne

40.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

42.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

45.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

46.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

48.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George