Motivational Quotes

Love

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

- Diane Ackerman

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Menninger, Karl A.

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

Bible

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

10.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

11.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

12.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

13.

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

14.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

15.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

20.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

21.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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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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

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

26.

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

Dickinson, Emily

27.

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.

28.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

29.

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

30.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

31.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

32.

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.

33.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

34.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

35.

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

36.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

38.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

39.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

40.

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

Saltus, Edgar

41.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

43.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

44.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

45.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

46.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

47.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

48.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

49.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure