Motivational Quotes

Love

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

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

Confucius

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

10.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

11.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

12.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

13.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

14.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

15.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

16.

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

17.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

18.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

19.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

20.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

22.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

23.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

24.

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.

25.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

27.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

28.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

32.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

34.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

35.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

36.

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

Parker, Dorothy

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.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

39.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

40.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

41.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

43.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

46.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

47.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich