Motivational Quotes

Love

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

10.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

11.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

12.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

13.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

16.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

17.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

18.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

19.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

20.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

21.

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

Bible

22.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

23.

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

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

25.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

26.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

27.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

28.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

29.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

30.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

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

Du Coeur

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

35.

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

Jerome, St.

36.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

37.

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

38.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

40.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

42.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

43.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

44.

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

Confucius

45.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

46.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

47.

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

Margaret Cho

48.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

49.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

50.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo