Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Suttner, Bertha Von

Best Quotes about Love

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

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

Harrigan, John

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Osgood, Samuel

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

10.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

11.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

12.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

13.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

14.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

15.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

16.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

17.

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

18.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

19.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

20.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

21.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

24.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

27.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

29.

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.

30.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

34.

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

35.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

36.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

37.

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

38.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

39.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

41.

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

Proverb

42.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

43.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

44.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

45.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

46.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

47.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Rita Rudner

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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.