Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Leunig, Michael

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

12.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

13.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

15.

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

Anouilh, Jean

16.

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

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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

19.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

20.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

21.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

25.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

26.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

27.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

28.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Lennon, John

30.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

31.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

32.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

35.

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

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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.

37.

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

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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

39.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

41.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

43.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

44.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

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In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

48.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

49.

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

Seneca

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What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina