Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

William Shakespeare

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

10.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

11.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

12.

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

Ice T

13.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

14.

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

15.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

16.

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

DiFranco, Ani

17.

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

Dane, Frank

18.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

19.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

20.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

21.

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

22.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

23.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

24.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

25.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

26.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

27.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

28.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

29.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

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

Barry, Lynda

31.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

36.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

39.

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

Pythagoras

40.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

41.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

42.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Oates, Joyce Carol

44.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

45.

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

John Sheffield

46.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

47.

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

48.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

49.

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.

50.

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