Motivational Quotes

Love

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Brown, David

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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

11.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

13.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

15.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

16.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

17.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

18.

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

Murdoch, Iris

19.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

20.

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

21.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

22.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

23.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

24.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

25.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

27.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

28.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

29.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

32.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

33.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

36.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

37.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

38.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

39.

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

40.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

41.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

Sarton, May

43.

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

Nathan, George Jean

44.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

45.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

46.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

48.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

50.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund