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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

10.

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

Behn, Aphra

11.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

12.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

13.

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

14.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

15.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

18.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

19.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

20.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

21.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

22.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

27.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

28.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

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

30.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

31.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

32.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

33.

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

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

37.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

38.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

39.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

40.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

41.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Law, William

43.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

46.

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

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Real love stories never have endings.