Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

10.

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

Meredith, George

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

13.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

14.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

15.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

16.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

19.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

21.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

22.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

23.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

24.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

25.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

26.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

27.

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

Ovid

28.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

29.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

31.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

32.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

33.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

39.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

40.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

41.

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

Southey, Robert

42.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

43.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

44.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

45.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

46.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

48.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

49.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

50.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.