Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Croft, Roy

Best Quotes about Love

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

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Buddha

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

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

Paolo Giordano

10.

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

11.

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

Victor Hugo

12.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

13.

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

17.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

18.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

19.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

20.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

21.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

22.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

23.

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

24.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

25.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

26.

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

27.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

28.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

30.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

31.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

32.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

33.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

34.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

35.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

36.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

37.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

38.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

39.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

40.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

41.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

42.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.

Dioum, Baba

43.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

44.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

47.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

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

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.

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson