Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Dryden, John

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

10.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

11.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

12.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

14.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

16.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

18.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

19.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

22.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

23.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

24.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

25.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

26.

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

27.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

28.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

29.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

32.

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

33.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

34.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

36.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

37.

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

Groening, Matt

38.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

39.

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

40.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

41.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

42.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

44.

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

Diane Ackerman

45.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

46.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

47.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

49.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

50.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya