Motivational Quotes

Love

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

- Malory, Sir Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

2.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

3.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

4.

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

5.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

6.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

7.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

8.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

10.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

11.

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

12.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

13.

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

14.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

15.

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

16.

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

Traherne, Thomas

17.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

18.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

19.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

20.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

21.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

24.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

25.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

26.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

27.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

28.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

34.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

35.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

36.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

37.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

39.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

40.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

41.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

42.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

43.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

44.

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

45.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

46.

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.

47.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

48.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

49.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

50.

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

Murdoch, Iris