Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Meredith, George

Best Quotes about Love

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

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

Federman, Irwin

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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

Saltus, Edgar

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

10.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

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

14.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

15.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

16.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

18.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

19.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

24.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

25.

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.

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

27.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

28.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

29.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

30.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

31.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

32.

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

33.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

35.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

36.

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

Bible

37.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

38.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

41.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

43.

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

44.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

47.

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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Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

49.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Brookner, Anita