Motivational Quotes

Love

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Love

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

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

William Shakespeare

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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

Bourget, Paul

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

10.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

14.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

15.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

19.

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

20.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

21.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

22.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

26.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

28.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

29.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

30.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

31.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

32.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

35.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

36.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

37.

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

38.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

40.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

41.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

42.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

43.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

44.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

45.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

46.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

48.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

49.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

50.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.