Motivational Quotes

Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Proverb, French

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

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

Charles M. Schulz

10.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

12.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

13.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

15.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

16.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

17.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

21.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

23.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

24.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

25.

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

26.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

27.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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.

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

30.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

31.

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

32.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

33.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

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

35.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

36.

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

Dane, Frank

37.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

38.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

39.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

40.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

41.

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

42.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

43.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

44.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

45.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

46.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

47.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

48.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare