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

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

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

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

10.

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

11.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

12.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

15.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

16.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

17.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

19.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

20.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

21.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

22.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

23.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

26.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

28.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

29.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

31.

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.

32.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

33.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

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

William Penn

36.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

37.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

38.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

40.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

41.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

42.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

43.

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

44.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

45.

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

Bible

46.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

47.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.