Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Osgood, Samuel

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

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.

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

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

10.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

11.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

12.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

13.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

15.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

16.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

17.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

18.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

19.

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

DiFranco, Ani

20.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

22.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

24.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

25.

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

Scott Westerfeld

26.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

27.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

29.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

32.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

34.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

35.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

36.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

38.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Buddha

40.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

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Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

42.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

44.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

45.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

48.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

49.

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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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb