Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

Shakespeare, William

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

10.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

11.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

12.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

13.

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

Wieder, Marcia

14.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

15.

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.

16.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

18.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

21.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

22.

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

23.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

24.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

25.

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

Confucius

26.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

27.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

28.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

30.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

31.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

37.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

40.

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

41.

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

42.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

43.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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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

49.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe