Motivational Quotes

Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

- Alan Watts

Best Quotes about Love

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

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

10.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

11.

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

Paolo Giordano

12.

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

13.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

14.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

16.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Irving, Washington

20.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

21.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

22.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

23.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

24.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Bailey, Pearl

26.

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

27.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

28.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

29.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

30.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

31.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

32.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

33.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

34.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

35.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

36.

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

John Sheffield

37.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

38.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Wilkerson, David

40.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

41.

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

42.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

43.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

44.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

46.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Harrigan, John

49.

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

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.