Motivational Quotes

Love

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

- Mcdonald, George

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

William Shakespeare

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

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

10.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

11.

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

12.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

15.

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

16.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

17.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

18.

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

Meredith, George

19.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

20.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

Eucharista Ward

22.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

23.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

25.

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

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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

27.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

28.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

29.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

Bible

33.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

36.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

38.

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

Hugo, Victor

39.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Rita Rudner

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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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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

46.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh