Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

10.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

12.

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

13.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

15.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

17.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

18.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

19.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

21.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

22.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

23.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

24.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

25.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

28.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

29.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

30.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

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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

33.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

34.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

35.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

36.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

37.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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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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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

42.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

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

Mencken, H. L.

44.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

45.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

49.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

50.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley