Motivational Quotes

Love

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Randy K. Milholland

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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

Bible

10.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

11.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

12.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

13.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

14.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

15.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

16.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

17.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

18.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

19.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

20.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

21.

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

Aragon, Louis

22.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

23.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

27.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

28.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

30.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

31.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

32.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

33.

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.

34.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

37.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

38.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Proverb, Irish

40.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

41.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

42.

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

43.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

44.

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

45.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

46.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

47.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

48.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

49.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano