Motivational Quotes

Love

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

- Prior, Matthew

Best Quotes about Love

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

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

Chanel, Coco

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

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Taylor, Jeremy

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

10.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

11.

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

12.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

13.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

14.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

15.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

17.

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

18.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

19.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

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

24.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

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

26.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

28.

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

William Shakespeare

29.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

30.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

32.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

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

Jean Anouilh

34.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

35.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

36.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

38.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

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

Margaret Cho

40.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

41.

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

Fox, Emmet

42.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

43.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

44.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

45.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

46.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

47.

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

48.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

49.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

50.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen