Motivational Quotes

Love

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

3.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Rita Rudner

5.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

6.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

7.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

8.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

9.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

10.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

11.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

12.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

15.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

16.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

18.

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

John of the Cross, St.

19.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

20.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

21.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

22.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

23.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

24.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

25.

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

26.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

27.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Traherne, Thomas

30.

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

31.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

32.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

33.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

34.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

35.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

38.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

39.

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

40.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

42.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

43.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

45.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

46.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

47.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

48.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

50.

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

Peguy, Charles