Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Michael Patrick King

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

10.

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

Burton, Robert

11.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

12.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

13.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

16.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

17.

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

Willis, Bruce

18.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

19.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

21.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

22.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

23.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

24.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

25.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

27.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

28.

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

Reik, Theodor

29.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

32.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

33.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

34.

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.

35.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

36.

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

37.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

38.

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

39.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

43.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

45.

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

46.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

47.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

48.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

49.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

50.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David