Motivational Quotes

Love

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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Best Quotes about Love

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Southey, Robert

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Williams, William Carlos

10.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

11.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

12.

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

Calvino, Italo

13.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

14.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

15.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

16.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

18.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

19.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

20.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

22.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

23.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

24.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

25.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

26.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

27.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

28.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

29.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

30.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

34.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

35.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

36.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

37.

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

38.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

39.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

42.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.