Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

10.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

11.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

12.

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

13.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

14.

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

15.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

16.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

18.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

19.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

21.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

22.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

23.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

24.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

25.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

27.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

28.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

33.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

35.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

36.

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

37.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

38.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

39.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

40.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

41.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

42.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

44.

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

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

48.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

50.

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

Michael Patrick King