Motivational Quotes

Love

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

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

Carl Jung

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

10.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.

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.

12.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

13.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

14.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

15.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

16.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

18.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

19.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

21.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

22.

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

23.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

24.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

25.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

26.

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

Traherne, Thomas

27.

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.

28.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

29.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

30.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

31.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

32.

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

33.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

34.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

35.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

36.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

37.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

38.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

39.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

40.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

41.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

42.

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

43.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

44.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

45.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

46.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.