Motivational Quotes

Love

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

- Movie, Wizard of Oz

Best Quotes about Love

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

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

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

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

10.

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

Meredith, George

11.

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

Bible

12.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

13.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

14.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

15.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

17.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

18.

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

Brown, David

19.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

20.

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

21.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

24.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

25.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

28.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

29.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

30.

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

Verse, A Haiku

31.

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

John of the Cross, St.

32.

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

33.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

40.

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.

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic