Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Meredith, George

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Layton, Irving

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

Sand, George

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

11.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

12.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

13.

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

Euripides

14.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

15.

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

16.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

17.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

18.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

20.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

21.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

23.

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

24.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

25.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

26.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

27.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

28.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

31.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

32.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

33.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

34.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

35.

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

Bible

36.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

37.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

39.

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

40.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

41.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha