Motivational Quotes

Love

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Love

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

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

10.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

11.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

12.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Fromm, Erich

14.

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.

Cervantes, Miguel De

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

17.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

18.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

19.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

20.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

21.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

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

23.

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

Ferry, Brian

24.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

26.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

28.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

29.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

30.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Michael Patrick King

34.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

38.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

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

Davies, Robertson

40.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

41.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

42.

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.

43.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

44.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

45.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

47.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

48.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

49.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

50.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato