Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

10.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

11.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

12.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

13.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

14.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

15.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

16.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

17.

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

Ovid

18.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

21.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

25.

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

Saltus, Edgar

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

31.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

John of the Cross, St.

38.

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

Horton, Doug

39.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

40.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

41.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

42.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

48.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

49.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

50.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch