Motivational Quotes

Love

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

- Fox, Emmet

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

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

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

10.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

11.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

12.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

13.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

15.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

16.

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

17.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

19.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

20.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

21.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

22.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

23.

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

DiFranco, Ani

24.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

25.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

26.

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

27.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

28.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

29.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

31.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

32.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

34.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

35.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

36.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

37.

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

Pascal, Blaise

38.

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

39.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

40.

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

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

Thurber, James

42.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

43.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

44.

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

Charles M. Schulz

45.

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

46.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh