Motivational Quotes

Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Fox, Emmet

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

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

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

10.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

15.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

16.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

20.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

21.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

22.

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

23.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

24.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

25.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

26.

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

Wilkerson, David

27.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

28.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

29.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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.

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

32.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

33.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

35.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

36.

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

Leunig, Michael

37.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

38.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

39.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

42.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

43.

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

44.

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

45.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

46.

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

47.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

48.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

49.

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