Motivational Quotes

Love

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Laing, R. D.

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

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Bacon, Francis

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

10.

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

Hugo, Victor

11.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

12.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

13.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

14.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

16.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

17.

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

18.

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

Saltus, Edgar

19.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

20.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

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

Dickinson, Emily

22.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

23.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

24.

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

Buber, Martin

25.

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

26.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

27.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

28.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

29.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

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

31.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

33.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

36.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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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

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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

39.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

40.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

41.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

42.

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

Michael Patrick King

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

46.

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

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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

48.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold