Motivational Quotes

Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

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

Sophocles

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

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Michael Patrick King

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

11.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

14.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

15.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

16.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

17.

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

Tomlin, Lily

18.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

19.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

20.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

21.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

22.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

23.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

24.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

25.

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

26.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

27.

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

28.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

29.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

30.

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

Smith, Sydney

31.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

33.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

34.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

35.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

36.

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

37.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

38.

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