Motivational Quotes

Love

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Guthrie, Arlo

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

William Shakespeare

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

10.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

12.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

13.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

14.

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

Byron, Lord

15.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

18.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

19.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

20.

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

Buddha

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

23.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

24.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

25.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

26.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

27.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

28.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

29.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

30.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

31.

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

Plato

32.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

33.

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

Leunig, Michael

34.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

35.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

36.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

37.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

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I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

39.

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

Alan Watts

40.

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

Calvino, Italo

41.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

42.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

43.

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

Smith, Sydney

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

48.

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

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