Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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

Sarton, May

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Osgood, Samuel

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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

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

Harrigan, John

10.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

11.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

12.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

13.

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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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

16.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

17.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

21.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

25.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

26.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

29.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

31.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

32.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

33.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

34.

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

Julie Morgenstern

35.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

36.

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

37.

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

38.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

42.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

43.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

44.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

45.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

46.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

49.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

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

Richardson, Nick