Motivational Quotes

Love

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

1.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

2.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

3.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

4.

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

5.

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

James, William

6.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

7.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

8.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

9.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

10.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

11.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

12.

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

13.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

14.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

16.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

17.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

18.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

19.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

20.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

21.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Elizabeth Aston

26.

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

Martineau, Harriet

27.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

29.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

32.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

33.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

34.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

35.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

36.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

37.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

38.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

40.

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

Pascal, Blaise

41.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

42.

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

43.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

44.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

45.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

46.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red