Motivational Quotes

Love

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

William Shakespeare

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

11.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

12.

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

13.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

14.

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

Martineau, Harriet

15.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

16.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

17.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

18.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

19.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

20.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

21.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

22.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

Turner, Ted

24.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

25.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Euripides

28.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

29.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

30.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

31.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

32.

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

33.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

34.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

35.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

38.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

39.

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

40.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

41.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

42.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

43.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

44.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

45.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

46.

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

47.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

48.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

49.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

50.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.