Motivational Quotes

Love

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

- Marlowe, Christopher

Best Quotes about Love

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kempis, Thomas

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Peter Ustinov

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

10.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

11.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

12.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

13.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

14.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

17.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

18.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

19.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

20.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

21.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

22.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

23.

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

Mcdonald, George

24.

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

25.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

29.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

30.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

31.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

32.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

33.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

34.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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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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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

38.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

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

40.

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

Sarton, May

41.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

42.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

43.

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

Diane Ackerman

44.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

45.

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

46.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

49.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

50.

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