Motivational Quotes

Love

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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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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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

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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

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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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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

20.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

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I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

24.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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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

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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

32.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

33.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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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

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Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

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The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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

Michael Patrick King

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

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

45.

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

Ovid

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Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

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There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

Bruyere, Jean De La