Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

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

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

10.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

11.

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

Mother Teresa

12.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

13.

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

14.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

15.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

16.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

17.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

18.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

19.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

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

22.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

23.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

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.

25.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

26.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

27.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

29.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

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

31.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

32.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

33.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

34.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

35.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

36.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

42.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

43.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

47.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

48.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!