Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Margaret Cho

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

10.

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

11.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

12.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

13.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

17.

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

18.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

19.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

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

Dryden, John

22.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

23.

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

Law, William

24.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

25.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

26.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

27.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

28.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

29.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

30.

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

Plato

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Victor Hugo

33.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

34.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

35.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

36.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

37.

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

38.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

39.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

40.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

41.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

42.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

45.

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

Kempis, Thomas

46.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

47.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

48.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

49.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold