Motivational Quotes

Love

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

- Jennifer Aniston

Best Quotes about Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

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

Bible

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

Horton, Doug

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

15.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

16.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

18.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

19.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

20.

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

21.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

22.

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

23.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

24.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

25.

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

Byron, Lord

26.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

27.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

28.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

29.

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

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

31.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

32.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

33.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Desai, Yogi

36.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

37.

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

38.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

39.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

40.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

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

42.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

43.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

44.

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

Voltaire

45.

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

Jeph Jacques

46.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

47.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

48.

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

49.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

50.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank