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

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

10.

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

Tracy, Brian

11.

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

Alan Watts

12.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

13.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

14.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

15.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

16.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

17.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

19.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

20.

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

21.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

22.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

25.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

26.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

27.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

28.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

29.

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

Allen, Woody

30.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

31.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

32.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

35.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

36.

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

Wieder, Marcia

37.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

38.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

39.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

40.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

41.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

42.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

43.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

44.

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

45.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

46.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

47.

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

Jeph Jacques

48.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

49.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

50.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]