Motivational Quotes

Love

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Love

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

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

Voltaire

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

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

Vicious, Sid

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

William Shakespeare

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

12.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

13.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

14.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

15.

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

Charles M. Schulz

16.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

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

19.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

20.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

21.

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

Martineau, Harriet

22.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

23.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

24.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

25.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

27.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

28.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

29.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

30.

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

31.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

32.

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

33.

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

Ice T

34.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

35.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

36.

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

Orwell, George

37.

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

Croft, Roy

38.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

39.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

40.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

41.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

42.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

43.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

44.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

45.

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

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

47.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

48.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

49.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

50.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes