Motivational Quotes

Love

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Love

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

Martineau, Harriet

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Bertrand Russell

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 does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Saltus, Edgar

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

10.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

12.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

13.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

14.

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

Michael Patrick King

15.

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

Paolo Giordano

16.

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

Pascal, Blaise

17.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

18.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

19.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

21.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

22.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

25.

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

Brooke, Rupert

26.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

27.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

29.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

31.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

32.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

33.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

34.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

35.

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

36.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

37.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

38.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

39.

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

Laing, R. D.

40.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

41.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

42.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

44.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

45.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

46.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

47.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

48.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.