Motivational Quotes

Love

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

- Drummond, Henry

Best Quotes about Love

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, Irish

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

William Shakespeare

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

10.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

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

15.

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

Ovid

16.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

17.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

18.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

19.

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.

20.

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

Toni Morrison

21.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

22.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

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

Traherne, Thomas

24.

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

Youngman, Henny

25.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

26.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

27.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

28.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

32.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

33.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

34.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

36.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

37.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

39.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

40.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

41.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

44.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

46.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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No three words have greater power than I Love You.