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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Voltaire

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

11.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

12.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

13.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

16.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

18.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

19.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

20.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

21.

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

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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

Scott Westerfeld

23.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

24.

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

Rowland, Helen

25.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

27.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

29.

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

30.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

32.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

33.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

34.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Wieder, Marcia

36.

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

37.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

40.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

41.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

44.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

48.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

49.

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

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We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.