Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

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

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

10.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

11.

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

Mencken, H. L.

12.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

13.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

15.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

18.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

19.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

20.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

21.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

25.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

26.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

27.

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

Bible

28.

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.

29.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

34.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

35.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

36.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

37.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

38.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

39.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

40.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

41.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

42.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

43.

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

Peter Ustinov

44.

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

45.

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

46.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

49.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!