Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

11.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

12.

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

Chambless, David

13.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

14.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

15.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

17.

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

18.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

19.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

20.

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

21.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

22.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

23.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

24.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

25.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

26.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

27.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

28.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

29.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

30.

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

Leunig, Michael

31.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

32.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

35.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

36.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

37.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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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

40.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

41.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

42.

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

Ovid

43.

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

Ferry, Brian

44.

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

Horton, Doug

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The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.