Motivational Quotes

Love

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

- Pythagoras

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

2.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

3.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

4.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

5.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

6.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

7.

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

Williams, William Carlos

8.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

9.

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

10.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

14.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

15.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

16.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

17.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

21.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

22.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

23.

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

Disney, Walt

24.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

25.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

26.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

27.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

28.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

32.

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

33.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

34.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

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.

36.

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

Horton, Doug

37.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

38.

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

39.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

40.

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

41.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

42.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.