Motivational Quotes

Love

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

- Oakley, Ann

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hazlitt, William

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

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

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

11.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

12.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

13.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

17.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

18.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

19.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

26.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

27.

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

Rowland, Helen

28.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

29.

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

30.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

33.

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

Rossetti, Christina

34.

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

Randy K. Milholland

35.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

37.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

39.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

41.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

42.

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

43.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

44.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

45.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

48.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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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