Motivational Quotes

Love

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Love

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

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

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

Fromm, Erich

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

10.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

11.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

12.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

13.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

14.

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

15.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

16.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

17.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

18.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

19.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

23.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

26.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

28.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

29.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

30.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

32.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

35.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

36.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

37.

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

Rita Rudner

38.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

40.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

41.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

42.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

43.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

44.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

45.

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

Reagan, Ronald

46.

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

Dane, Frank

47.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

48.

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

Wilde, Kim

49.

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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But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare