Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

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

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Meredith, George

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

17.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

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I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

19.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

21.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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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

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

26.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

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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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The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Levine, Stephen

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

Ovid

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

Thurber, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

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Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

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Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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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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You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent