Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Behn, Aphra

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

12.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

14.

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

15.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

16.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

17.

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

18.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

19.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

20.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

23.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

24.

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

Plato

25.

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

Donne, John

26.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

27.

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.

28.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

30.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

31.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

33.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

34.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

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

36.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

37.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

38.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

39.

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.

40.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

41.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

42.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

43.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

44.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

45.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

46.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

47.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

48.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

49.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare