Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Bible

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

12.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

16.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

17.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

18.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

21.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

22.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

23.

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

24.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

25.

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

26.

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

Ferry, Brian

27.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

28.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

29.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

30.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

31.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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

Jeanne Moreau

34.

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.

35.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

36.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

37.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

39.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

40.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

41.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

43.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

44.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

45.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

46.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

47.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

48.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

49.

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

50.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.