Motivational Quotes

Love

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

- Croft, Roy

Best Quotes about Love

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

10.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

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

12.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

16.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

17.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

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

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

20.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

21.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

22.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

23.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

Wieder, Marcia

27.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

28.

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

Hugo, Victor

29.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

30.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

33.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

34.

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

35.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

39.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

40.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

41.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

46.

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

Hay, Louise L.

47.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

48.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

49.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

50.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi