Motivational Quotes

Love

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

- Duras, Marguerite

Best Quotes about Love

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Chambless, David

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

Martineau, Harriet

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

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

Michael Patrick King

11.

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

12.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

14.

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.

15.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

16.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

19.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

20.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

21.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

23.

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

24.

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

25.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

26.

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

27.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

29.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

32.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

33.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

35.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

36.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

37.

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

38.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

40.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

41.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

42.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.