Motivational Quotes

Love

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

- Elton, Ben

Best Quotes about Love

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

Shakespeare, William

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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 is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

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

Sarton, May

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

12.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

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

Erica Jong

14.

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.

15.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

16.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

17.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

18.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

19.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

22.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

23.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

26.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

29.

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

Richardson, Nick

30.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

32.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

33.

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

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

35.

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

William Penn

36.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

37.

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

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It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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

Duras, Marguerite

40.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

46.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

47.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

48.

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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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

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert