Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Murdoch, Iris

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Sarton, May

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

10.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

11.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

12.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

14.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

15.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

16.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

17.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

18.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

19.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

20.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

21.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

23.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

24.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

26.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

J. K. Rowling

31.

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

32.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

34.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

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

Donne, John

36.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

37.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

38.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

40.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

41.

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

Murdoch, Iris

42.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

43.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

44.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

47.

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

Heinlein, Robert

48.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

49.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.