Motivational Quotes

Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

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

William Shakespeare

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

10.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

11.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

12.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

13.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

15.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

16.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

18.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

19.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

20.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

22.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

23.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

26.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

29.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

30.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

34.

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

Margaret Cho

35.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

36.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

37.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

38.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

39.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

40.

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

Orwell, George

41.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

43.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

44.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

45.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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

47.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

48.

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

J. K. Rowling

49.

'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

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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