Motivational Quotes

Love

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

- Luce, Clare Boothe

Best Quotes about Love

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

Sophocles

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Laing, R. D.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

10.

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

11.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

12.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

15.

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

16.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

17.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

19.

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

20.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

21.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

22.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

23.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

24.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

25.

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

26.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

27.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

28.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

29.

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.

30.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

31.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

32.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

33.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

34.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

35.

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

Mother Teresa

36.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

37.

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

John of the Cross, St.

38.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

39.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Buddha

43.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

44.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

45.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

46.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

47.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

48.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

49.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges