Motivational Quotes

Love

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Love

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

10.

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

11.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

12.

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

13.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

14.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

15.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

16.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Reik, Theodor

18.

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

19.

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

20.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

21.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

23.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

24.

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

Murdoch, Iris

25.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

26.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

27.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

28.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

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

30.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

31.

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

32.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

33.

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

Brown, David

34.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

36.

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

37.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

38.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

39.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

40.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

42.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

43.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

44.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

45.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

46.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

47.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

48.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

49.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

50.

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

Steinfeld, Jake