Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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

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.

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

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

11.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

13.

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

Nathan, George Jean

14.

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

15.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

16.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

17.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

20.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

21.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

23.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

24.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

25.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

26.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

27.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

28.

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

29.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

30.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

31.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

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.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Charles M. Schulz

36.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

37.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

38.

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.

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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

41.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

42.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

43.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

44.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

49.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

50.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.