Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

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

Alan Watts

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

10.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

11.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

12.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

14.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

15.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

16.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

19.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

20.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

21.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

22.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

23.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

24.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Bailey, Pearl

27.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

28.

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

29.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Croft, Roy

31.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

Rowland, Helen

33.

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

34.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

37.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

39.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

40.

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

41.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

45.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

46.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

47.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

49.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

50.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke