Motivational Quotes

Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

10.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

14.

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

Sand, George

15.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

17.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

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

19.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

20.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

21.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

23.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

24.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

26.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

27.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

28.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

29.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

30.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

31.

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

32.

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

Martineau, Harriet

33.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

34.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

35.

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

36.

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

Youngman, Henny

37.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

38.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

40.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

41.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

42.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

44.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

46.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

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Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

48.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

49.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara