Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

- Heinlein, Robert

Best Quotes about Love

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

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

10.

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

11.

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

Dane, Frank

12.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

13.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

15.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

16.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

17.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

20.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

24.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

25.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

27.

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

Hertl, Nick

28.

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.

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

32.

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

Bible

33.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

34.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

38.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

39.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

40.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

43.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

44.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

45.

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.

46.

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

Byron, Lord

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

48.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.