Motivational Quotes

Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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

Covey, Stephen R.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

10.

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

11.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

12.

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

Federman, Irwin

13.

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

Murdoch, Iris

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

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

18.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

19.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

20.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

21.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

22.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

25.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

26.

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

27.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

28.

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

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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

30.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

31.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

32.

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

Jeanne Moreau

33.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

35.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

36.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

37.

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

Bertrand Russell

38.

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

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

Randy K. Milholland

40.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

41.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

42.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

43.

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

44.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

45.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

46.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Davies, Robertson

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.