Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Best Quotes about Love

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

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

Barry, Lynda

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

12.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

13.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

14.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

16.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

17.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

18.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

19.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

20.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

21.

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

Rita Rudner

22.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

24.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

25.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

26.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

29.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

30.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

31.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

32.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

33.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

34.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

35.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

36.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

38.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

39.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

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

50.

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

Crawford, Joan