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

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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

William Shakespeare

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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

Alan Watts

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

William Shakespeare

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

10.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

11.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

12.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

13.

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

John of the Cross, St.

14.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

'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

16.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

17.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

18.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

19.

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

Osgood, Samuel

20.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

21.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Peguy, Charles

23.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

24.

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

25.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

26.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Capote, Truman

28.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

30.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

31.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

32.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

37.

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

38.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

39.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

40.

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

41.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

42.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

43.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

44.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

45.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

46.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

47.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

48.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

50.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.