Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's reason's without reason.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

10.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

11.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

12.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

13.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

14.

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

15.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

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

Diane Ackerman

18.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

19.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

20.

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

Ice T

21.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

22.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

23.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

25.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

28.

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

29.

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

Pavese, Cesare

30.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

31.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

32.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

33.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

35.

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

36.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

37.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

38.

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

39.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

40.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

41.

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

42.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

44.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

46.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

48.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

49.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich