Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Traherne, Thomas

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

10.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

12.

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

13.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

14.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

16.

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

Charles M. Schulz

17.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

18.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

19.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

20.

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

21.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

22.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

23.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

24.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

25.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

26.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

27.

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

Verse, A Haiku

28.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

29.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

30.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

31.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

32.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

33.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

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

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

Wilde, Kim

36.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

37.

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

38.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

39.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

40.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

41.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

42.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

43.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.