Motivational Quotes

Love

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

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Best Quotes about Love

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

10.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

11.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

14.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

17.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

18.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

23.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

24.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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.

26.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

27.

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

28.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

29.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

30.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

31.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

32.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

33.

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.

34.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

35.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

36.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

38.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

39.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

40.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

42.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

43.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

44.

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

Bacon, Francis

45.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

47.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

48.

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

Proverb, Japanese

49.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

50.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord