Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

10.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

12.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

13.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

14.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

15.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Voltaire

17.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

18.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

19.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

25.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Jane Austen

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This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

33.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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.

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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Steinfeld, Jake

44.

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

45.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

46.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

47.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel