Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

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

Aristotle

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

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

William Shakespeare

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

10.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

12.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

13.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

14.

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

15.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

17.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

18.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

19.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

23.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

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

25.

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

Rowland, Helen

26.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

27.

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

Hertl, Nick

28.

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

Martineau, Harriet

29.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

31.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

32.

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.

33.

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

34.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

35.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

36.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

37.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

38.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

39.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

40.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

41.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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