Motivational Quotes

Love

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

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

10.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

11.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

15.

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

16.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

19.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

20.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

21.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

22.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

23.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

24.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

26.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

27.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

28.

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.

29.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

30.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

31.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

33.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

34.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

36.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

37.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

39.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

41.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

42.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

43.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

44.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

45.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

46.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

48.

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

49.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

50.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De