Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

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

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

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

Wieder, Marcia

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

11.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

12.

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

Diane Ackerman

13.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

14.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

15.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

16.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

17.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

18.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

19.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

21.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

22.

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

Dyer, Wayne

23.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

26.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

27.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

28.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

29.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

30.

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

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

33.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

34.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

37.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

38.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

39.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

40.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

44.

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

Confucius

45.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

46.

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

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

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We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John