Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

'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

10.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

12.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

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

Brooke, Rupert

17.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

18.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

21.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

22.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

23.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

24.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

25.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

26.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

27.

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

Paolo Giordano

28.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

29.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

30.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

31.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

32.

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

Sand, George

33.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

34.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

35.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

36.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

37.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

38.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

39.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

40.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

42.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

43.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

46.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

47.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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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.