Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

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

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

11.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Southey, Robert

13.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

14.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

15.

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

Ferry, Brian

16.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

17.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

18.

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

19.

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

Blanton, Smiley

20.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

21.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

22.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

23.

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

Verse, A Haiku

24.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

25.

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

26.

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

27.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

28.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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

Pavese, Cesare

31.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

32.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

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.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Peter Ustinov

36.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

38.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

40.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

41.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

43.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

44.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

45.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

46.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

47.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

48.

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

John of the Cross, St.

49.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

50.

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