Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Randy K. Milholland

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Bridges, Robert

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

Bailey, Pearl

10.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

11.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

12.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

13.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

14.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

16.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

17.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

18.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

20.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

21.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

22.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

23.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

24.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

26.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

27.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

28.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

30.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

31.

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

Buber, Martin

32.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

36.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

37.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

38.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

39.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

40.

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

Rita Rudner

41.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

42.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

43.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

44.

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

45.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

47.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

48.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

49.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford