Motivational Quotes

Love

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

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

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

10.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

11.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

12.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

13.

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

Confucius

14.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

15.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

18.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

19.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

20.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

21.

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

22.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Southey, Robert

24.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

25.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

26.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

27.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

28.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

29.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

30.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

32.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

34.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

35.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

36.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

38.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

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Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

40.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

41.

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

42.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

44.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

45.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

46.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

47.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

48.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

50.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord