Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Love

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

10.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

11.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

12.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

13.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

14.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

17.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

18.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

20.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

21.

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

22.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

23.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

25.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

26.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

27.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

28.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

29.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

31.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

32.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

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

Bible

34.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

35.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

36.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

37.

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

Hugo, Victor

38.

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

Peguy, Charles

39.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

40.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

41.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

42.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

43.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

44.

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

Calvino, Italo

45.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

49.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

50.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney