Motivational Quotes

Love

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

- Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Best Quotes about Love

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

Shakespeare, William

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Plato

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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

William Shakespeare

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Brooke, Rupert

11.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

12.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

13.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

14.

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

15.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

16.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

17.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

18.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

19.

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

Tracy, Brian

20.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

22.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Davies, Robertson

24.

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

25.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

26.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

27.

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

Clark, Melanie

28.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

29.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

30.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

31.

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.

32.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

33.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

34.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

35.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

36.

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

37.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

38.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

39.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

40.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

41.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

42.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

43.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

44.

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

Murdoch, Iris

45.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

46.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

47.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

48.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

49.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

50.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.