Motivational Quotes

Love

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

17.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

18.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

19.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

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Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

23.

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.

24.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

25.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

26.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

27.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

28.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

29.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

30.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

31.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Michael Patrick King

34.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

38.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

39.

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

Law, William

40.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

41.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

42.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

43.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

44.

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

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I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

46.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

47.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor