Motivational Quotes

Love

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

- Ann Radcliffe

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

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

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

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

Michael Patrick King

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

William Shakespeare

10.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

11.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

12.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

13.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Rowland, Helen

15.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

16.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

17.

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

18.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

20.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

21.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

22.

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

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

25.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

26.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

27.

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

28.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

29.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

30.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

31.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

32.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

33.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

35.

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

36.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

37.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

38.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

39.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

40.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

43.

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

44.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

46.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

47.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

48.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

49.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

50.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.