Motivational Quotes

Love

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

12.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

13.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

14.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

15.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

16.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

18.

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

Calvino, Italo

19.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

20.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

21.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

25.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

26.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

28.

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

29.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

30.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

31.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

32.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

33.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

34.

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

Jane Austen

35.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

37.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

38.

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

39.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

40.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

43.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

44.

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

Rowland, Helen

45.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

46.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

49.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]