Motivational Quotes

Love

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Love

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

William Shakespeare

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

11.

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

Buddha

12.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

13.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

14.

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

Charles M. Schulz

15.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.

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

17.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

19.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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.

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

Bible

22.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

23.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

24.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

25.

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

Delp, Alexis

26.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

27.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And 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

28.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

29.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

30.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

31.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

32.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

33.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

35.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

36.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

38.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

39.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

40.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

41.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

42.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

43.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

44.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

45.

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

46.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

49.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.