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

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

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

Aristotle

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

11.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

17.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

18.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

22.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

23.

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

24.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

26.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

29.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

30.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

31.

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

32.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

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

Youngman, Henny

34.

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

Eucharista Ward

35.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

36.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

37.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

38.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

39.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

40.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

41.

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

42.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

43.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

44.

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

45.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

46.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

48.

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

Allen, Woody

49.

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

50.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.