Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Orwell, George

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

11.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

13.

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

Rossetti, Christina

14.

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

15.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

17.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

19.

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

Margaret Cho

20.

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

21.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

23.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

25.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

26.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

27.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

31.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

34.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

35.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

36.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

37.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

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

Kempis, Thomas

40.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

41.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

42.

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

Bible

43.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

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Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

48.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

49.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

50.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul