Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

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

William Shakespeare

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

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

10.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

11.

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

Real Live Preacher

12.

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

Dyer, Wayne

13.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

14.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

17.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

18.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

19.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

21.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

22.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

23.

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

24.

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

Ackerman, Diane

25.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

26.

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

27.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

28.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

29.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

32.

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

Law, William

33.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

34.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

35.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

36.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

37.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

38.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

39.

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

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

42.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

44.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

45.

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

Aragon, Louis

46.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

47.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

48.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

49.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

50.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa