Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

12.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

Jeph Jacques

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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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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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

24.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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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

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Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

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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

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Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

35.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

39.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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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 met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

48.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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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