Motivational Quotes

Love

I leave before being left. I decide.

- Bardot, Brigitte

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Buddha

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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.

10.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

11.

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.

12.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

13.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

14.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

15.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

17.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

18.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

20.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

21.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

24.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

25.

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

Paolo Giordano

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Bible

28.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

29.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

30.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

35.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

37.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

38.

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.

39.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

40.

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

Byron, Lord

41.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

42.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

43.

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

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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Ferry, Brian

47.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

48.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

50.

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