Motivational Quotes

Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

- Shadwell, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Williams, William Carlos

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Pavese, Cesare

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

10.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

11.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

12.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

13.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

16.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

17.

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

Federman, Irwin

18.

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

Rowland, Helen

19.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

20.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

22.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

24.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

25.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

26.

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

27.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

28.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

29.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

30.

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

Plato

31.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

32.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

33.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

35.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

36.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

37.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

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Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

39.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Diane Ackerman

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

43.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord