Motivational Quotes

Love

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

10.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

11.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

12.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

13.

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

Proverb

14.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

15.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

16.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

17.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

18.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

21.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

22.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

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There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

24.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

26.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

27.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

28.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

29.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

31.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

32.

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

Michael Patrick King

33.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

36.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

37.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

38.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

39.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

40.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

42.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

43.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

44.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

45.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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