Motivational Quotes

Love

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

- Bible

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

11.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

12.

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

Euripides

13.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

14.

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

Auerbach, Red

15.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

16.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

17.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

18.

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

Buddha

19.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

21.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

23.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

24.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

25.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

26.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

27.

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

28.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

29.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

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

Ferry, Brian

31.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

32.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

33.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

34.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

35.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

36.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

37.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

38.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

39.

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

Murdoch, Iris

40.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

41.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

43.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

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

Traherne, Thomas

45.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

46.

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

Brown, David

47.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

48.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

49.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

50.

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

Shakespeare, William