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

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

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

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

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

Disney, Walt

13.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

14.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

15.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

16.

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

17.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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

19.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

23.

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

24.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

27.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

28.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

29.

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

Carmichael, Amy

30.

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

31.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

32.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

33.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

34.

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

Allen, Woody

35.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

36.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

37.

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

38.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

39.

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

William Penn

40.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

41.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

44.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

45.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

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

William Shakespeare

47.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

48.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.