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

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

10.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

12.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

13.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

14.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

17.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

18.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

19.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

20.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

21.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

22.

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

23.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

24.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

27.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

28.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

30.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

31.

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

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

35.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

36.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

37.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

38.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

39.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

41.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

42.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

44.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

45.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham