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

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

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

10.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

11.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Jeanne Moreau

14.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

15.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

16.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

17.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

18.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

19.

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

20.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

21.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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.

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

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

25.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

27.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Plato

29.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

30.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

35.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

36.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

37.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

38.

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

39.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

40.

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

Bible

41.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

42.

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

William Penn

43.

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

44.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

45.

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.

46.

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

Smith, Sydney

47.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

48.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

49.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

50.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas