Motivational Quotes

Love

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

- Child, Lydia M.

Best Quotes about 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

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sophocles

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

10.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

11.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

12.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

13.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

16.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

17.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

Youngman, Henny

19.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

20.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

21.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

22.

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

Donne, John

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

25.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

26.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

27.

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

28.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

29.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

30.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

31.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

33.

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

Bourget, Paul

34.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

35.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

36.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

37.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

38.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

39.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

40.

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

Wieder, Marcia

41.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

42.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

43.

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

44.

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

45.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

46.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

47.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

50.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James