Motivational Quotes

Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Leunig, Michael

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Plato

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

10.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

11.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

12.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

13.

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

Crawford, Joan

14.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

16.

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

17.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

18.

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

Tracy, Brian

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

22.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

23.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

27.

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

28.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

29.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

31.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

32.

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

33.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

34.

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

Pavese, Cesare

35.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

37.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

38.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

41.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

42.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

44.

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

45.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

49.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

50.

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