Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

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

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Eliot, T. S.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

10.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

12.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

14.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

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

Orwell, George

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

17.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

18.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

19.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

20.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

27.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

28.

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

David Viscott

29.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

31.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Rowland, Helen

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Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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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

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People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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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

42.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

Steindl-Rast, David

45.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

46.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

47.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

49.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

50.

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