Motivational Quotes

Love

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

West, Mae

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

10.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

11.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

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.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

15.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

17.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

18.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

19.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

20.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

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

22.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

24.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

25.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

27.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

28.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

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

31.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

33.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

34.

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

Murdoch, Iris

35.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

36.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

37.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

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True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Borges, Jorge Luis

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

42.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

43.

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

44.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

46.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

47.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Murdoch, Iris

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich