Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

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

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

10.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

11.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

12.

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

13.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

14.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

15.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

16.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

17.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

19.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

20.

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

21.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

22.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

23.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

24.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

25.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

26.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

27.

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

28.

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

Croft, Roy

29.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

30.

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

31.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

33.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

41.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

43.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

47.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

48.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

49.

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

50.

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