Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

10.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

11.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

12.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

13.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

14.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

15.

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

West, Mae

16.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

17.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

18.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

19.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

20.

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

Traherne, Thomas

21.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

22.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

23.

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.

24.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

25.

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

26.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

28.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

29.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

30.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

31.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

32.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

36.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

37.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

38.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

40.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

41.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

45.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

46.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

47.

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

Capote, Truman

48.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

49.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

50.

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