Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

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

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

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

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

11.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

12.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

16.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

17.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

18.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

19.

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

Hugo, Victor

20.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

21.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Duffy, Maureen

28.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

29.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

30.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

31.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

32.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

33.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

34.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

35.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

36.

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.

37.

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

Dickinson, Emily

38.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

39.

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

40.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

41.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

42.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

43.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

44.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

45.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

46.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

47.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

48.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

49.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.