Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

12.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

13.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

14.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

17.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

19.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

22.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

23.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

24.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

25.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

27.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

28.

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

29.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

30.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

31.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

32.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

34.

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

35.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

36.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

37.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

38.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

39.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

41.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

42.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare