Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Love

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

John Sheffield

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

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

11.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

12.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

13.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

14.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

15.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

16.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Horton, Doug

18.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

19.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

20.

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

21.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

22.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

24.

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

25.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

26.

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

27.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

28.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

30.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

31.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

32.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

33.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

34.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

36.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

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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

38.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

39.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

41.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

42.

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

43.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

44.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

45.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

46.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?