Motivational Quotes

Love

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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

Bible

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

10.

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

11.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

13.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

17.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

18.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

19.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

20.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

21.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Confucius

24.

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

25.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

27.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

28.

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

Laing, R. D.

29.

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

30.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

31.

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

Scott Westerfeld

32.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Orwell, George

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

38.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

39.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

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

41.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

42.

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

43.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

44.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

45.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

46.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

49.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.