Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

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

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

10.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

11.

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

Meredith, George

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There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

13.

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

Richardson, Nick

14.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

22.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

24.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

25.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

26.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

30.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

Michael Patrick King

33.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

34.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

35.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

36.

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

37.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

38.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

39.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

41.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

42.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

43.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

44.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

45.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

46.

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

47.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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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

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When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

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Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel