Motivational Quotes

Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

14.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

15.

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

16.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

17.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

18.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

19.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

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

21.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

22.

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

National Lampoon

23.

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

24.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

26.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

27.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

28.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

29.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

30.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

31.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

33.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

34.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

35.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

36.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

37.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

39.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

40.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

41.

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.

42.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

43.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

44.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

45.

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

46.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

47.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

48.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

49.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

50.

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

Dryden, John