Motivational Quotes

Love

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

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

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

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

William Shakespeare

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

10.

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

11.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

12.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

13.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

15.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

16.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

17.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

19.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

21.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

23.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

24.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

25.

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

Vicious, Sid

26.

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

27.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

28.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

29.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

30.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

31.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

33.

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.

34.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

35.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

36.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

37.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

38.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

39.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

44.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Proverb

48.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

49.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

50.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De