Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rossetti, Christina

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

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

10.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

11.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

12.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

13.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

14.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

15.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

17.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

18.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

19.

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

Victor Hugo

20.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

22.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

24.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

25.

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

26.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

27.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

28.

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

29.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

31.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

32.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

Croft, Roy

34.

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

35.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

37.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

38.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

40.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

41.

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

Bible

42.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

43.

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

Law, William

44.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

45.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

46.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

47.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

48.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.