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

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

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

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Brown, Les

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

10.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

11.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

12.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

13.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

14.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

15.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

16.

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

17.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

19.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

20.

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

Davis, Bette

21.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

22.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

24.

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

25.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

28.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

29.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

30.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

31.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

32.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

33.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

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I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

35.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

36.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

37.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

38.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

39.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

40.

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

41.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

42.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

43.

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

Law, William

44.

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

Paolo Giordano

45.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

46.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

47.

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

48.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace