Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

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

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

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

12.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

13.

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

14.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

15.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

16.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

18.

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

Law, William

19.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

21.

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

22.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

23.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

24.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

25.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

27.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

28.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

29.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

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

32.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

33.

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

34.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

35.

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

36.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Peter Ustinov

38.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

39.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

40.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

42.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

43.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

45.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

47.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

48.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

49.

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

50.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin