Motivational Quotes

Love

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Love

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

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

Layton, Irving

10.

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

Smith, Sydney

11.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

12.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

13.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

14.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

15.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

16.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

17.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

18.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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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

20.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

21.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

24.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

25.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

26.

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

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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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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

29.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

33.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

36.

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

Michael Patrick King

37.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

38.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

39.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

40.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

41.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

42.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

45.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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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.