Motivational Quotes

Love

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

- Murdoch, Iris

Best Quotes about Love

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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

Southey, Robert

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

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

Reagan, Ronald

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

10.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

11.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

12.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

13.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

14.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

15.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

16.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

17.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

18.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

23.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

24.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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

26.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

27.

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.

28.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

29.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

30.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

31.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

33.

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

34.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

35.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Tomlin, Lily

37.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

38.

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

Saltus, Edgar

39.

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

Verse, A Haiku

40.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

41.

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

Byron, Lord

42.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

44.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

45.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

46.

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

47.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

48.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

49.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley