Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

10.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

11.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

12.

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

Osgood, Samuel

13.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

14.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Hugo, Victor

16.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

19.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

20.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

21.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

22.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

23.

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

24.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

25.

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

Smith, Sydney

26.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

27.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

30.

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

31.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

32.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

33.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

34.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

36.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

37.

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

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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

39.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

40.

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.

41.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

42.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

43.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

44.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.