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

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

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

William Shakespeare

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

10.

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

11.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

13.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

14.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

15.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

16.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

17.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

Buddha

19.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

20.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

21.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

22.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

23.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

24.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

25.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

26.

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

Confucius

27.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Scott Westerfeld

29.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

30.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

31.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

32.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

33.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

34.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

35.

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

36.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

37.

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

38.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Traherne, Thomas

40.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

42.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

43.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

44.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

45.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

46.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

47.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

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Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

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In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr