Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

- Corneille, Pierre

Best Quotes about Love

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

Jennifer Aniston

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Hugo, Victor

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

William Shakespeare

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

10.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

11.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

14.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

15.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

20.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

21.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

22.

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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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Murdoch, Iris

25.

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

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

27.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

28.

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

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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

30.

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

31.

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

Southey, Robert

32.

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

Willis, Bruce

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Carmichael, Amy

35.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

37.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

38.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

39.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

40.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

41.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

42.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

49.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

50.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales