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

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

'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

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

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

10.

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

Sand, George

11.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

12.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

13.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

14.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

15.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

16.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Euripides

19.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

20.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

23.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

24.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

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

Taylor, Jeremy

29.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

31.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

33.

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

34.

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

Osgood, Samuel

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

37.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

39.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

40.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

41.

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.

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

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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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

47.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

48.

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

49.

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

Mansfield, Katherine