Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Groening, Matt

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

Carl Jung

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

12.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

13.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

14.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

15.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

17.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

18.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

19.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Ovid

21.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

22.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

23.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

24.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

26.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

27.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

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

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

32.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

33.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

34.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

35.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

36.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

38.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

41.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

42.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

43.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

44.

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

Rubinstein, Arthur

45.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

47.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

48.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

49.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

50.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David