Motivational Quotes

Love

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

Sand, George

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

10.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

11.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

12.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

13.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

14.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

15.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

16.

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

17.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

18.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

19.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

20.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

21.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

22.

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

Julie Morgenstern

23.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

25.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

26.

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

Carmichael, Amy

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

32.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

33.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

35.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

36.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

37.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

38.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

41.

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

Buddha

42.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

43.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

45.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

46.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

50.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.