Motivational Quotes

Love

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

- Szasz, Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

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

Michael Patrick King

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

11.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

12.

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

Connolly, Cyril

13.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

14.

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

15.

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.

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.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

18.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

19.

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

20.

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

Reik, Theodor

21.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

22.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

23.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

24.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

26.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

27.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

29.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

30.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

31.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

33.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

34.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

35.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

36.

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

37.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

39.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

40.

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

41.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

42.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

43.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

45.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

46.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

47.

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

48.

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

Byron, Lord

49.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

50.

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