Motivational Quotes

Love

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

- Law, William

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

2.

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

Tracy, Brian

3.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

4.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

6.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

7.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

8.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

9.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

10.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

12.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Irving, Washington

15.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

16.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

17.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

20.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

21.

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

22.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

24.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

25.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

28.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

29.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

30.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

32.

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

33.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

34.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.