Motivational Quotes

Love

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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

Stravinsky, Igor

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Jeph Jacques

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

10.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

14.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

15.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

16.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

17.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Kempis, Thomas

24.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

25.

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

26.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

27.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

28.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

29.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

30.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

33.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

34.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

35.

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

Rowland, Helen

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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

37.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

38.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

40.

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

Williams, William Carlos

41.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

44.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

45.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

46.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

48.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

49.

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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell