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

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

Wilde, Kim

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

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

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

12.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

13.

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

14.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

15.

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

Margaret Cho

16.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

17.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

18.

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

Bible

19.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

20.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

22.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

23.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

24.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

26.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

27.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

28.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

29.

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.

30.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

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Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

32.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

33.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

34.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

35.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

36.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

37.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

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Love is a tyrant sparing none.