Motivational Quotes

Love

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Love

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

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

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

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

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Ferry, Brian

10.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

11.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

13.

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

14.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

15.

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

Davies, Robertson

16.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

18.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

19.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

20.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

23.

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

Dryden, John

24.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

26.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

27.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

28.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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.

30.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

31.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

32.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

33.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

34.

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

35.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

36.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

37.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

38.

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

John of the Cross, St.

39.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

40.

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

Anouilh, Jean

41.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

42.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

43.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

44.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

45.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

46.

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

Bible

47.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

48.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

49.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

50.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne