Motivational Quotes

Love

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Love

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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

Disney, Walt

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

12.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

13.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

15.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

16.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

17.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

18.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

19.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

20.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

21.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

22.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

23.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

24.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

25.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

26.

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

27.

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

Michael Patrick King

28.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

33.

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

34.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

35.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

36.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

37.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

38.

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

39.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

40.

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

41.

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

Anouilh, Jean

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

44.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

45.

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

46.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

47.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

48.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

Reik, Theodor

50.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher