Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

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

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

10.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

11.

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

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

14.

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

15.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

16.

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

Paolo Giordano

17.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

18.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

19.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

20.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

21.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

22.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

23.

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

Bourget, Paul

24.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

26.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

27.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

29.

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

Peguy, Charles

30.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

33.

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

Hay, Louise L.

34.

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

35.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

36.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

42.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

44.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

45.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

47.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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

49.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

50.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von