Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

'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

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

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Jeanne Moreau

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

12.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

13.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

14.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Seneca

18.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

19.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

22.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

23.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

25.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

27.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

28.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

32.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

33.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

34.

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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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

37.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

38.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

39.

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.

40.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

48.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

49.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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