Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

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

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

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

Law, William

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Voltaire

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

10.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

13.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Alan Watts

16.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

17.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

18.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

19.

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

20.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

21.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

22.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

23.

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

Victor Hugo

24.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

26.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

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

Rossetti, Christina

28.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

29.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

30.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

31.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

33.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

34.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

35.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

36.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

37.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

38.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

40.

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

Sarton, May

41.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

42.

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

43.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

46.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

47.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

48.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

49.

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

50.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare