Motivational Quotes

Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

- Anderson, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

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.

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

Dryden, John

10.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

12.

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

13.

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

Barry, Lynda

14.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

15.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

18.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

19.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

20.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

21.

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

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

24.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

26.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

27.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

28.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

29.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

30.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

31.

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

32.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

35.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

36.

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.

37.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

38.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

39.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

40.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

42.

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

Fox, Emmet

43.

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

Levine, Stephen

44.

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

Michael Patrick King

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

47.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

48.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

49.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

50.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine