Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

Layton, Irving

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

12.

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

13.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

14.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

15.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

16.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

17.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

19.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

20.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

21.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

22.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

23.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

24.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

25.

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

26.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

30.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

31.

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.

32.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

33.

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

Lao-Tzu

34.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

37.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

39.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

40.

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

41.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

42.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

43.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

44.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

45.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

46.

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

Confucius

47.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

48.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

49.

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

50.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.