Motivational Quotes

Love

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

- Wieder, Marcia

Best Quotes about Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

11.

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

12.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

13.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

15.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

16.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

17.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

18.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

19.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

20.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

21.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

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I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

William Penn

25.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

27.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

29.

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

30.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

33.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

34.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

35.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

36.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

37.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

Dickinson, Emily

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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

Mcdonald, George

43.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

44.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

45.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

46.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

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

Rossetti, Christina