Motivational Quotes

Love

Learn what you are and be such.

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Love

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Julie Morgenstern

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

Horton, Doug

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Wieder, Marcia

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

10.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

11.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

12.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

13.

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

Byron, Lord

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

16.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

17.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

19.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

21.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

22.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

24.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

25.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

26.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

27.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

28.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

29.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

30.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

31.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

Scott Westerfeld

36.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

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

Dryden, John

38.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

39.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

40.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

41.

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.

42.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

43.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

44.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

45.

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

Hugo, Victor

46.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

47.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

48.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

49.

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

50.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin