Motivational Quotes

Love

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

- Reik, Theodor

Best Quotes about Love

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

13.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

14.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

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

16.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Sand, George

22.

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.

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Chambless, David

25.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

26.

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

27.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

28.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

30.

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

Hertl, Nick

31.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

32.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

33.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

34.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

35.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

36.

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

37.

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

38.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

39.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

40.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

41.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

42.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

43.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

45.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

47.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

49.

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

Orwell, George

50.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare