Motivational Quotes

Love

I leave before being left. I decide.

- Bardot, Brigitte

Best Quotes about Love

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

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

David Viscott

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

12.

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

13.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

14.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

16.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

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.

18.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

19.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

20.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

22.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

24.

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

Paolo Giordano

25.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

26.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

27.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

28.

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

Wilde, Kim

29.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

31.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

32.

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

Proverb, Japanese

33.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

34.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

35.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

36.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

37.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Byron, Lord

43.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

44.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

45.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

46.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

47.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

48.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

49.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

50.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John