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

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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

Nathan, George Jean

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

10.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

11.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

12.

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

Jean Anouilh

13.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

14.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

15.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

16.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

17.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

18.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

19.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

23.

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

24.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

25.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

26.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

27.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

29.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

32.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

35.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

36.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

37.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

38.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.