Motivational Quotes

Love

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

2.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

3.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

4.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

5.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

6.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

7.

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

Fromm, Erich

8.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

9.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

10.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

11.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

12.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

13.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

16.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

17.

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

Paolo Giordano

18.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

20.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

21.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

22.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

24.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

25.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

27.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

28.

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

Ice T

29.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

30.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

31.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

32.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

33.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

34.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

35.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

36.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

37.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

38.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

39.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

41.

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

Pascal, Blaise

42.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

43.

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

44.

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

Chambless, David

45.

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

46.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

49.

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