Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

12.

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

Dickinson, Emily

13.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

14.

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

Confucius

15.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

16.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

17.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

19.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

20.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

22.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

23.

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

Alan Watts

24.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

25.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

26.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

28.

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

Connolly, Cyril

29.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

30.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

31.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

35.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

36.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

37.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

38.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

39.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

40.

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

Heinlein, Robert

41.

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

Hazlitt, William

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

47.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

48.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

49.

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

Irving, Washington

50.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh