Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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

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

Hugo, Victor

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

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

Buscaglia, Leo

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

10.

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

11.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

12.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

16.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

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

Parker, Dorothy

18.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

21.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

25.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

26.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

27.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

28.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

30.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

34.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

35.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

36.

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

37.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

38.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

39.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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.

42.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

43.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

44.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

45.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare