Motivational Quotes

Love

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

- Du Coeur

Best Quotes about Love

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

Clark, Melanie

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

James, William

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

10.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

13.

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

Shakespeare, William

14.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

16.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

17.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

18.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

19.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

20.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

21.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

23.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

24.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

25.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

26.

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

Bible

27.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

28.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

29.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

30.

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

31.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

34.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

35.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

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

Sarton, May

37.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

38.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

39.

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

40.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

43.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

44.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

45.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

49.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.