Motivational Quotes

Love

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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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As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

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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

12.

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

Elizabeth Aston

13.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

16.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

17.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

18.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

20.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

21.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

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

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

25.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

26.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

27.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

28.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

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

Rita Rudner

30.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, 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

32.

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 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

34.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

38.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

39.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

43.

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

Dane, Frank

44.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

47.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard