Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

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

Dyer, Wayne

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

10.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

11.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

13.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

14.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

15.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

17.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

19.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

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

22.

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

Horton, Doug

23.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

26.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

27.

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

Vicious, Sid

28.

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

Victor Hugo

29.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

30.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

31.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

33.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

34.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

37.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

40.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

43.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

44.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

45.

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

46.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

49.

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

Proust, Marcel

50.

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