Motivational Quotes

Love

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

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

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

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

10.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

11.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

12.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

15.

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

Southey, Robert

16.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

17.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

18.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

21.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

22.

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

Euripides

23.

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

24.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

25.

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

Jean Anouilh

26.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

27.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

28.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

29.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

30.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

31.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

32.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

33.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

34.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

39.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

40.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

41.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.