Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

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

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

12.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

13.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

14.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

15.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

16.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

17.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

18.

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

19.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

21.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

22.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

23.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

24.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

25.

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

26.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

27.

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

Turner, Rev. Dale

28.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

29.

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

Connolly, Cyril

30.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

31.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

32.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

33.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

35.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

36.

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

Bible

37.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

38.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

39.

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

40.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

41.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

43.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

44.

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.

45.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

46.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

47.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

48.

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

49.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

50.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth