Motivational Quotes

Love

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Bertrand Russell

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

10.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

12.

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

13.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

14.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

15.

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

16.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

17.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

18.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

22.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

24.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

25.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

26.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

27.

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

Carl Jung

28.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

29.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

30.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

31.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

32.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

34.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

35.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

36.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

40.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

41.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

42.

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

Plato

43.

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

44.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

45.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

46.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

47.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

49.

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

William Shakespeare

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.