Motivational Quotes

Love

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

- Magnani, Anna

Best Quotes about Love

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

Bible

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

10.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

11.

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

12.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

13.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

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

Seneca

15.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

16.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

17.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

22.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

23.

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

Mother Teresa

24.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

26.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

28.

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

29.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

30.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

31.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

32.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

33.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

34.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

35.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

36.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

37.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

38.

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

39.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

40.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

42.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

43.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

44.

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

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

48.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

49.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

50.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand