Motivational Quotes

Love

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Lao-Tzu

10.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

11.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

12.

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

Thurber, James

13.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

15.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

16.

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

Law, William

17.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

18.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

19.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

20.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

21.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

24.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

25.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

26.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

27.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

28.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

29.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

31.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

32.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

34.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

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.

36.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

37.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

38.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

39.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

42.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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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

47.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

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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

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

50.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody