Motivational Quotes

Love

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Love

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

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

Chambless, David

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

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

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

11.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

12.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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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

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

DiFranco, Ani

15.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

16.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

17.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

18.

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

19.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

20.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

21.

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

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

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

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

25.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

27.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

28.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

29.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

30.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

32.

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

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

36.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

37.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

38.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

39.

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

Wilde, Kim

40.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

John of the Cross, St.

43.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

45.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

46.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

49.

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

Voltaire

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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.