Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

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

Shakespeare, William

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Ferry, Brian

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

10.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

11.

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

Jeanne Moreau

12.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

13.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

14.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

15.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

16.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

17.

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

Margaret Cho

18.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

19.

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

20.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

21.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

22.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

25.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

26.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

Burton, Robert

28.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

29.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

30.

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

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

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

Osgood, Samuel

35.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

36.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

37.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

38.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

41.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

42.

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

Heinlein, Robert

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

45.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

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

Williams, William Carlos

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We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.