Motivational Quotes

Love

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

10.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

11.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

12.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

14.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

15.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

20.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

21.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

24.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

27.

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 is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

30.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

31.

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

32.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

33.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

34.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

36.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

37.

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 love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

40.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

45.

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

Jeph Jacques

46.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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Love is the bridge between two hearts.

49.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

50.

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

William Shakespeare