Motivational Quotes

Love

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

- Fielding, Henry

Best Quotes about Love

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

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

Carmichael, Amy

10.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

11.

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

Proverb, Spanish

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

14.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

15.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

16.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

17.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

18.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

19.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

21.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

22.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

23.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

24.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

26.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

27.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

28.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

29.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

30.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

31.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

32.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

33.

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

Victor Hugo

34.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

35.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

36.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

37.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

38.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

39.

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

Margaret Cho

40.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

41.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

42.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Byron, Lord

44.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

45.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

46.

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

47.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

50.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa