Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

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

Clark, Melanie

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

Durrell, Lawrence

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

13.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

14.

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

Dane, Frank

15.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

16.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

18.

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

19.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

20.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

22.

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

Jean Anouilh

23.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

24.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

25.

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

Wilkerson, David

26.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

27.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

28.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

29.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

30.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

31.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

32.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

33.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

36.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

37.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

38.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

39.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

40.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

41.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

42.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

43.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

45.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

46.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

48.

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

Layton, Irving

49.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

50.

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