Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Saltus, Edgar

Best Quotes about Love

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

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

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

Chanel, Coco

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

10.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

11.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

13.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

14.

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

Strindberg, J. August

15.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Rita Rudner

17.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

24.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

25.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

26.

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

27.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

28.

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

29.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

30.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

31.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

32.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

33.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

34.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

35.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

36.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

38.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

39.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

40.

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

41.

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

DiFranco, Ani

42.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

43.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

44.

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.

45.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Brown, Les

47.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.