Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

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.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

10.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

11.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

12.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

13.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

14.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

15.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

16.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

17.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

18.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

19.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

Petrarch, Francesco

21.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

22.

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.

23.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

24.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

27.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

29.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

30.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

31.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

32.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

33.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

34.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

35.

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

Southey, Robert

36.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

37.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

38.

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

Peguy, Charles

39.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

40.

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

41.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

42.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

43.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

45.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

46.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

47.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

48.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

49.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

50.

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

John of the Cross, St.