Motivational Quotes

Love

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

- Upanishads, Veda

Best Quotes about Love

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Osgood, Samuel

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

Mooneyham, Stan

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

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

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

10.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

11.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

12.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

13.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

16.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

18.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

19.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

20.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

21.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

22.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

23.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

24.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

25.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

26.

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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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

29.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

30.

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

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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

32.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

33.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

34.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

35.

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

Wilkerson, David

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

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

40.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

41.

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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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

43.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

44.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

48.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

49.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis