Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

- Childs, Williams

Best Quotes about Love

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Brookner, Anita

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

John of the Cross, St.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

10.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

11.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

12.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

14.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Reik, Theodor

16.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

17.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

19.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

20.

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

21.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

23.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

24.

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

25.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

27.

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

Burton, Robert

28.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

29.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

30.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

38.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

39.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

40.

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

41.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

42.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

45.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

46.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

47.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

49.

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

National Lampoon

50.

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