Motivational Quotes

Love

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

- Cholmondeley, Mary

Best Quotes about Love

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

William Shakespeare

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

10.

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

11.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

12.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

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Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

15.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

16.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

17.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

18.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

19.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

20.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

21.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

22.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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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

24.

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

25.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

26.

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

Paolo Giordano

27.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

28.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

30.

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

31.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

32.

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

Smith, Sydney

33.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

34.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

35.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

36.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

Chambless, David

40.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

42.

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

44.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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