Motivational Quotes

Love

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

10.

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

Rowland, Helen

11.

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

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

14.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

17.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

19.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

20.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

21.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

22.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

23.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

24.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

25.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

26.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

27.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

28.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

29.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

30.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

31.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

33.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

34.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

35.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

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The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

38.

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

Layton, Irving

39.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

40.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

41.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

42.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

43.

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

44.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

45.

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

46.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.