Motivational Quotes

Love

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Traherne, Thomas

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

10.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

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

Smith, Sydney

13.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

Bible

17.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

18.

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

Nathan, George Jean

19.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

20.

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

Plato

21.

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

22.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

24.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Alan Watts

26.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

27.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

28.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

32.

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.

33.

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

Irving, Washington

34.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

36.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

38.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

39.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

41.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

42.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

43.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

44.

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

45.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

46.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

47.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

48.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

49.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

50.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert