Motivational Quotes

Love

We were two and had but one heart between us.

- Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

Best Quotes about Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Fromm, Erich

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

12.

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

13.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

14.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

15.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

16.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

17.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

21.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

22.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

23.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

25.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

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

Hay, Louise L.

27.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

28.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

29.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

30.

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

Charles M. Schulz

31.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

35.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

36.

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

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

37.

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

38.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

39.

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

Jean Anouilh

40.

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

41.

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

Behn, Aphra

42.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

43.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

45.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

46.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

47.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

48.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

49.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

50.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret