Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

3.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

4.

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

Mother Teresa

5.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

6.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

7.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

9.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

10.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

11.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Bible

14.

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.

15.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

16.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

17.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

21.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

22.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

25.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

26.

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

Richardson, Nick

27.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

28.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

29.

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

Shakespeare, William

30.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

31.

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

Bourget, Paul

32.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

Kempis, Thomas

34.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Bible

36.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

37.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

38.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

39.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

Victor Hugo

42.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

43.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

44.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

45.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

46.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

47.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

48.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

49.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

50.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare