Motivational Quotes

Love

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

- Wilde, Kim

Best Quotes about Love

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

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

William Shakespeare

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

13.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

14.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

15.

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

Osgood, Samuel

16.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

17.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

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

Kempis, Thomas

19.

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

Ovid

20.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

21.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

23.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

24.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

25.

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

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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

27.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

29.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

30.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

32.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

33.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

34.

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

Calvino, Italo

35.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

36.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

37.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

40.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

41.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

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

43.

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

Law, William

44.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

45.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

46.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

47.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.