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

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

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

11.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

12.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

13.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Anderson, Margaret

15.

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

16.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

17.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

18.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

19.

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

Buddha

20.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

21.

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

Bible

22.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

23.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

24.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

25.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

26.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

27.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

28.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

29.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

30.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

31.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

32.

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

33.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

34.

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

Wieder, Marcia

35.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

36.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

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.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

39.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

40.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

41.

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

Donne, John

42.

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

43.

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

44.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

45.

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

Hay, Louise L.

46.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

47.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

48.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

49.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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

Byron, Lord