Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

- Powell, Anthony

Best Quotes about Love

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

Osgood, Samuel

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Wieder, Marcia

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

10.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

11.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

12.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

13.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

14.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

16.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

17.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

18.

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

Verse, A Haiku

19.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

20.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

24.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

25.

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

Anderson, Margaret

26.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

27.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

29.

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.

30.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

31.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

32.

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

33.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

35.

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

36.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

37.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

38.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

39.

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

Byron, Lord

40.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

41.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

42.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

43.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

44.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

45.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

46.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

47.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

48.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

49.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius