Motivational Quotes

Love

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

- Wycherley, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Osgood, Samuel

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

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

10.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

11.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

12.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

National Lampoon

15.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

16.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

17.

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

Bible

18.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

19.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

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

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

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

Michael Patrick King

23.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

24.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

25.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

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

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

29.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

31.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

32.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

33.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

34.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

35.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

36.

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

Youngman, Henny

37.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

38.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

39.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of