Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

10.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

11.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

12.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

16.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Proverb, French

18.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

19.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

20.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

21.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

24.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

26.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

27.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

28.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

29.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

30.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

31.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

32.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

33.

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

34.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

35.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

36.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

37.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

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

Bible

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Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

42.

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

Donne, John

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

44.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

45.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

46.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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The best way to know God is to love many things.