Motivational Quotes

Love

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

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

Charles M. Schulz

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

13.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

14.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

15.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

18.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

19.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

23.

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

Wilkerson, David

24.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

27.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

28.

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

29.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

30.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

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

32.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

33.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

34.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

35.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

36.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

37.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

38.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

41.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

42.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

43.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

44.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

45.

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

46.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

47.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

48.

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

49.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

50.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani