Motivational Quotes

Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Love

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

Anderson, Margaret

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

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

Proverb, Spanish

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

10.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

11.

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

12.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

13.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

14.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

15.

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

16.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

17.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

18.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

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

Connolly, Cyril

20.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

23.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

24.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

25.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

26.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

28.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

29.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

30.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

32.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

33.

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

Traherne, Thomas

34.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

35.

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

Confucius

36.

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

37.

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

Peguy, Charles

38.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

39.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

40.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

41.

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

42.

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

Martineau, Harriet

43.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

44.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

45.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

46.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

48.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

49.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques