Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

10.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

13.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

17.

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

18.

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

Irving, Washington

19.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

20.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

24.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

25.

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

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

29.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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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

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

36.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

37.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

38.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

39.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

40.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

41.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

42.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

43.

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

44.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

45.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

46.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

47.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

48.

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

Swift, Jonathan

49.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

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It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet