Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

2.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

3.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

4.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

6.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

7.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

8.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

9.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Capote, Truman

13.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

17.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

18.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

19.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

20.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

21.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

22.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

23.

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

24.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

26.

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

27.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

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.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

30.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

32.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

33.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

36.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

38.

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

William Shakespeare

39.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

41.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

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

43.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

44.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

45.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

46.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.