Motivational Quotes

Love

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

12.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

13.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

14.

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

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

18.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

19.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

20.

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

Bertrand Russell

21.

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

Williams, William Carlos

22.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

23.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

24.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

25.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

26.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

27.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

28.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

30.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

32.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

33.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

34.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

35.

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

Proverb

36.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

37.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

39.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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

43.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

46.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

47.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

48.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.