Motivational Quotes

Love

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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

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

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

10.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

11.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

14.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

19.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

20.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

21.

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

22.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

30.

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.

31.

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

Donne, John

32.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

33.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

34.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

35.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

36.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

43.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

47.

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.

48.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

49.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

50.

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

William Shakespeare