Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

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

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

10.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

11.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

13.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

14.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

15.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

16.

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

Peguy, Charles

17.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

18.

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

Plato

19.

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

Verse, A Haiku

20.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

21.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

23.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

24.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

25.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

26.

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

27.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

28.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

29.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

30.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

31.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

34.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

35.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

36.

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

Charles M. Schulz

37.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

38.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

40.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

41.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

43.

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

44.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

45.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

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