Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Pythagoras

10.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

12.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

13.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

15.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

16.

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

Euripides

17.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Proverb

19.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

20.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

21.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

23.

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

24.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

25.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

26.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

28.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

29.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

30.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

33.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

34.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

35.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

36.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

37.

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

Peguy, Charles

38.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

39.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Bible

41.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

43.

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

44.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

46.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.