Motivational Quotes

Love

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

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

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

10.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

11.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

12.

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

Brooke, Rupert

13.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

14.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

15.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

16.

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

17.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

18.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

20.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

21.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

22.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

25.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

26.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

27.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

28.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

29.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

30.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

31.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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

34.

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

35.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

36.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

37.

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

Charles M. Schulz

38.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

39.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

40.

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

Michael Patrick King

41.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

42.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

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.

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

45.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

46.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

47.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

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

Mother Teresa

49.

We always come back to our first love.