Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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

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

Menninger, Karl A.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

10.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

11.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

12.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

13.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

14.

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

15.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

16.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

17.

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

18.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

19.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

20.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

21.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

23.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

24.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

25.

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

26.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

27.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

28.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

29.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

30.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

31.

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

32.

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

Crawford, Joan

33.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

34.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

35.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

37.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

38.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

39.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

41.

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.

42.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

43.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

45.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

46.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

47.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bertrand Russell