Motivational Quotes

Love

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

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

William Shakespeare

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

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

12.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

14.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

15.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

16.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Margaret Cho

18.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

19.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

20.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

21.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

23.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

24.

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

Dyer, Wayne

25.

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

26.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

27.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

29.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

30.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

33.

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

34.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Carl Jung

36.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

37.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

39.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

40.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

41.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

42.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

43.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

44.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

46.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

47.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

48.

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

49.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

50.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia