Motivational Quotes

Love

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

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

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Levine, Stephen

10.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

11.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

12.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

14.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

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

Law, William

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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

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

20.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

21.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

22.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

24.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

25.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

27.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

30.

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.

31.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

32.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

33.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

36.

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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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

38.

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

39.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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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

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Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

43.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

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But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

45.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

47.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

49.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Swift, Jonathan