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

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

Paolo Giordano

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

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

Smith, Sydney

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

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

10.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

11.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

13.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

14.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

15.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

16.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

17.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

18.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

19.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

20.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

21.

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

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Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

24.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

25.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

27.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

28.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

32.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

34.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

35.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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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

38.

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

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

42.

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

Mother Teresa

43.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

44.

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

Byron, Lord

45.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo