Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

12.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

13.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

15.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

16.

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

Wilkerson, David

17.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

18.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

19.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

20.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

21.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

22.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

23.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

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Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

25.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

26.

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

Bible

27.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

28.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

29.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

31.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

33.

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

Eucharista Ward

34.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

35.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

36.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

37.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

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Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

39.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

40.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

41.

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

Bourget, Paul

42.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

45.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

46.

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

47.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

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To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde