Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Nathan, George Jean

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

10.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

11.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

12.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

13.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

14.

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

15.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

16.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

17.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

18.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

19.

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

William Penn

20.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

22.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

23.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

24.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

25.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

27.

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

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

29.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

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

31.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

34.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

35.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

36.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

Diane Ackerman

38.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

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

Murdoch, Iris

40.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

41.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

42.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

43.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

45.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

46.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

47.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

49.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

50.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.