Motivational Quotes

Love

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

10.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

11.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

12.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

14.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

15.

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

William Shakespeare

16.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

17.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

18.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

19.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

20.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

21.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

24.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

26.

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

27.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

32.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

33.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

34.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

36.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

37.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

39.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

40.

Listen! Encourage. Say something. Do something. Be yourself. Love

Turner, Rev. Dale

41.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

42.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

44.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

45.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

46.

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

47.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

48.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

50.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare