Motivational Quotes

Love

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

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

Mcdonald, George

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

10.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

11.

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

12.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

14.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

15.

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

Mooneyham, Stan

16.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

17.

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

18.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

19.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

21.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

22.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

Orwell, George

24.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

26.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

27.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

28.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

29.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

30.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

31.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

32.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

33.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

34.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

35.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

36.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

37.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

38.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

40.

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

41.

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

42.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

44.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

45.

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

William Penn

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

48.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

49.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

50.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T