Motivational Quotes

Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

- Teasdale, Sara

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Proverb

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

10.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

12.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

13.

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

Proverb, Irish

14.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

20.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

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

28.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

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

30.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

31.

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

Bible

32.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

33.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

34.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

37.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

40.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

41.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

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

Rossetti, Christina

44.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

45.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

46.

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

47.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

48.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

49.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

50.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther