Motivational Quotes

Love

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Willis, Bruce

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

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

Bridges, Robert

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

13.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

14.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

16.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

17.

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

18.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

19.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

21.

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

Scott Westerfeld

22.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

24.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

25.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

26.

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

Wilkerson, David

27.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

28.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

29.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

30.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

33.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

36.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

37.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

40.

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

41.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

42.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

43.

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

Carroll, Pat

44.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

45.

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

46.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

47.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

49.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert