Motivational Quotes

Love

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

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

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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

Heinlein, Robert

10.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Jennifer Aniston

12.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

13.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

14.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

15.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

16.

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

17.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

18.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

19.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

20.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

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

22.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

23.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

24.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

26.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

27.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

28.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

29.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

30.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

31.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

32.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

33.

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

Peter Ustinov

34.

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

35.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

36.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

37.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

39.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

40.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

41.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

44.

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.

45.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

46.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

50.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William