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

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

Sophocles

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

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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

10.

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

11.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

12.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

13.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

15.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

17.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

18.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

19.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

20.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

21.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

22.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

23.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

24.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

25.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

26.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

27.

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

Rita Rudner

28.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

29.

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

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

34.

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

35.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

36.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

37.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

38.

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

Allen, Woody

39.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

40.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

41.

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

Crawshaw, Richard

42.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

43.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Plato

45.

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

46.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

47.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.