Motivational Quotes

Love

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about Love

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

Parker, Dorothy

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

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

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

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

Dryden, John

10.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

11.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

12.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

13.

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

14.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

15.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

16.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

17.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

19.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

20.

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

Bible

21.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

22.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Saltus, Edgar

26.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

27.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

28.

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

National Lampoon

29.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

32.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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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

34.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

35.

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

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

39.

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

40.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

41.

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

42.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

44.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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

48.

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

49.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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