Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mcdonald, George

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

10.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

11.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

12.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

15.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

17.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

18.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

19.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

20.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

22.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

23.

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

24.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

27.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

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

Proverb, Jewish

30.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

31.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

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

Disney, Walt

33.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

34.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

35.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

36.

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

37.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

38.

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

39.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Fromm, Erich

43.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

44.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

45.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

46.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

47.

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

48.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

49.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

50.

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