Motivational Quotes

Love

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

1.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

2.

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

3.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

4.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

5.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

6.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

7.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

8.

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

9.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

10.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

11.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

12.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

16.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

19.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

22.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

23.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

24.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

25.

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

26.

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

Jean Anouilh

27.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

28.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

29.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

30.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

31.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

35.

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

Behn, Aphra

36.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

37.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

38.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

39.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

41.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

42.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

43.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

44.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

45.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

46.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

47.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

48.

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

49.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

50.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David