Motivational Quotes

Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

10.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

11.

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

12.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

23.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

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A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

28.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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

Steinfeld, Jake

30.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

Dryden, John

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Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

38.

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

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

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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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

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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

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It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.