Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

- Aragon, Louis

Best Quotes about Love

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

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

Petrarch, Francesco

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

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

10.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

12.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

13.

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

Bible

14.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

15.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

16.

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

17.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

18.

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.

19.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Traherne, Thomas

22.

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

23.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

26.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

29.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Toni Morrison

32.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

33.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

34.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

35.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

36.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

37.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

39.

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

Paolo Giordano

40.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

41.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

42.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

43.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

44.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

45.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

46.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

47.

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

Bible

48.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

49.

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

Auvil, Myrtle

50.

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.