Motivational Quotes

Love

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

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

Wieder, Marcia

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

11.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

12.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

13.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

14.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

17.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

18.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

19.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

20.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

21.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

22.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

23.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

24.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

25.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

26.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

27.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

29.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

30.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

32.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

33.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

38.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

39.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

40.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

41.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Love is what you've been through with somebody.