Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Bible

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

William Shakespeare

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

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

11.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Levine, Stephen

13.

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

14.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

15.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

18.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

19.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

20.

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.

21.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

22.

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

Randy K. Milholland

23.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

24.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

25.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Sophocles

27.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

28.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

29.

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

30.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

31.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

32.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

34.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

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

Scott Westerfeld

36.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

37.

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

38.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

39.

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

Richardson, Nick

40.

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

41.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

44.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

46.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

47.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.