Motivational Quotes

Love

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

- Eucharista Ward

Best Quotes about Love

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Rowland, Helen

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

10.

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

11.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

12.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

14.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

15.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

16.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

17.

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

18.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

19.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

20.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

21.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

23.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

24.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

29.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

30.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

32.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

34.

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

Anouilh, Jean

35.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

36.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

38.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

39.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

40.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

41.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

42.

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

Wilkerson, David

43.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

44.

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

45.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

46.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

47.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

48.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

49.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Hay, Louise L.