Motivational Quotes

Love

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

2.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

3.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

4.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

5.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

6.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

7.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

8.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

11.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

12.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

13.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

15.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

16.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

19.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

21.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

22.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

23.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

24.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

25.

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

Martineau, Harriet

26.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

28.

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

Pythagoras

29.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

30.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

31.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

32.

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

Croft, Roy

33.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

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

National Lampoon

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 a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

39.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Levine, Stephen

41.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

43.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

44.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

45.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

46.

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

47.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

48.

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

Bible

49.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

50.

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