Motivational Quotes

Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Donne, John

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

10.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

11.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

13.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Horton, Doug

17.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

20.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

21.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

22.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

23.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

25.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

26.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

27.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

28.

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

Paolo Giordano

29.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

30.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

31.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

32.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

33.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

35.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb

40.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

43.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

44.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

45.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

46.

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.

47.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

48.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

49.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

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To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius