Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Love

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

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

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

Turner, Ted

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

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

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

10.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

14.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

15.

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

16.

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

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'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

18.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

19.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

21.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

23.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

24.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

25.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

27.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

28.

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

Murdoch, Iris

29.

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.

30.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

31.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

34.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

38.

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

Paolo Giordano

39.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

40.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

43.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

44.

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.

45.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

46.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

49.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Capote, Truman