Motivational Quotes

Love

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

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

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

11.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

12.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

15.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

16.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

17.

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

Peguy, Charles

18.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

19.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

20.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

24.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

25.

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

26.

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

27.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

28.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

29.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

31.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

32.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

33.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

34.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

35.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Dane, Frank

38.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

39.

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

40.

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

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

44.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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.