Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

- Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Best Quotes about Love

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

13.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

15.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

16.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

17.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

18.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

22.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

23.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

24.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

25.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

26.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

27.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

28.

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

29.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

31.

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

Updike, John

32.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

33.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

34.

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

35.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

36.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

37.

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

38.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

40.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

41.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

42.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

43.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

44.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

45.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

48.

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

Tracy, Brian

49.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

50.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese