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

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

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Law, William

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

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

10.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

11.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

12.

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

Fromm, Erich

13.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Plato

16.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

20.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

21.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

22.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

23.

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

24.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

25.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

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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

27.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

28.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

29.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

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

31.

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

DiFranco, Ani

32.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

35.

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

Julie Morgenstern

36.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

37.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

38.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

40.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

42.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

43.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

45.

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

Bette Davis

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