Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Michael Patrick King

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

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

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

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

12.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

13.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

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

15.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

16.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

17.

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

18.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Wilkerson, David

22.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

24.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

25.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

26.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

28.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

29.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

30.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

31.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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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A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

36.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

38.

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.

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

Delp, Alexis

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

42.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

46.

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

Carl Jung

47.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.