Motivational Quotes

Love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Reik, Theodor

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

Sophocles

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

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

Proverb, Spanish

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

10.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

11.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

12.

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

Bible

13.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

14.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

15.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

16.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

17.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

20.

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

Dryden, John

21.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

22.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

23.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

24.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

25.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

26.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

27.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

28.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

29.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

30.

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

Brookner, Anita

31.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

32.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

33.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

34.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

39.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

40.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

41.

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

Proverb

42.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

43.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

44.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.