Motivational Quotes

Love

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Love

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Hay, Louise L.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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

Jeanne Moreau

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

12.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

13.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

14.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

15.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

Verse, A Haiku

17.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

20.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

23.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

24.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

25.

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

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

28.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Bible

30.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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.

34.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

35.

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

36.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

37.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Bible

39.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

40.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

41.

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

Proverb, Jewish

42.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

43.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

44.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

45.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

46.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

47.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

48.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.