Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

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

Steindl-Rast, David

10.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

11.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

12.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

13.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

14.

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.

15.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

16.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

17.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

18.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

19.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

20.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

24.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

25.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

26.

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

27.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

30.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

31.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

33.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

34.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

35.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

38.

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.

39.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Dyer, Wayne

42.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

43.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

45.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

46.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

47.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

48.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

49.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

50.

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