Motivational Quotes

Love

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

- Matthews, Andrew

Best Quotes about Love

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

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Buddha

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb, Jewish

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

10.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

11.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

12.

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.

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

15.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

17.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

18.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

19.

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

Eliot, T. S.

20.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

21.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

22.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Diane Ackerman

25.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

26.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

27.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

28.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

30.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

31.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

32.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

36.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

37.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

38.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

39.

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

40.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

42.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

43.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

46.

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

Duffy, Maureen

47.

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

48.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

49.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Horton, Doug