Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

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

Dane, Frank

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

William Shakespeare

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

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

11.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

12.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

13.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

14.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

16.

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

17.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

18.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

19.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

20.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

21.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

22.

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.

23.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

24.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

25.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

26.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

27.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

29.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

30.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

31.

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

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

33.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

34.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

35.

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

36.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

37.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

38.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

39.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

40.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

41.

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

42.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

43.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

44.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

45.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

46.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

47.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

49.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

50.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle