Motivational Quotes

Love

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

- Delp, Alexis

Best Quotes about Love

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

10.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

11.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

12.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

13.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

14.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

15.

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

Buber, Martin

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

18.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

19.

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

20.

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

Hay, Louise L.

21.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

22.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

23.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

24.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

25.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

26.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

27.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

29.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

30.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

32.

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

33.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

34.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

37.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

38.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

39.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

40.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

41.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

42.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

44.

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

Hugo, Victor

45.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

46.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

47.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

48.

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

49.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

50.

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