Motivational Quotes

Love

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Aristotle

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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

Brookner, Anita

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

10.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

11.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

12.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

14.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

18.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

19.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

20.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

21.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

24.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

25.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

26.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

27.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

28.

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

Sarton, May

29.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

30.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

31.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

32.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

33.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

34.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

36.

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

37.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

38.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

42.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

43.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

44.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

45.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

46.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

47.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

48.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

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Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

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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