Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Layton, Irving

Best Quotes about Love

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

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

10.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

11.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

12.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

13.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

14.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

17.

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

Dane, Frank

18.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

20.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

21.

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

22.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

23.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

24.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

25.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

26.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

27.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

28.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

29.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

30.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

31.

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

32.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

33.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

34.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

35.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

36.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

37.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

38.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

39.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

40.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

42.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

43.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

44.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

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

Sarton, May

47.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

48.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von