Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

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

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

10.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

11.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

12.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

13.

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

Horton, Doug

14.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

15.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

16.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

17.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

18.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

19.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

20.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

22.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

23.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

24.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

25.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

26.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

27.

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

28.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

29.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

30.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

31.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

33.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

35.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

37.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

38.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

39.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

40.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

41.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

42.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

43.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

44.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

45.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

46.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

47.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

49.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

50.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet