Motivational Quotes

Love

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

- Fox, Emmet

Best Quotes about Love

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

Voltaire

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

10.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

11.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

13.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

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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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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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.

18.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

19.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

20.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

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

John Sheffield

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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

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

Traherne, Thomas

26.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

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

29.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

30.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

33.

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

Eliot, T. S.

34.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

35.

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

Auerbach, Red

36.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

40.

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

41.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

45.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

46.

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

Barry, Lynda

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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

48.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

49.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas