Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

William Shakespeare

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Osgood, Samuel

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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

11.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

12.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

13.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

14.

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

15.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

16.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

17.

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

18.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

19.

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

Erica Jong

20.

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

21.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

22.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

23.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

24.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

28.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

29.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

30.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

31.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

32.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

33.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

34.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

35.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

36.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

37.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

38.

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

Michael Patrick King

39.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

40.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

41.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

42.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

43.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

44.

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

Anderson, Margaret

45.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

46.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

47.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

48.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

49.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

50.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

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