Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Steindl-Rast, David

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Sophocles

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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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 talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

National Lampoon

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

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I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Levine, Stephen

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I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mcdonald, George

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Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.