Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Love

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

Hay, Louise L.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

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

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

11.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

12.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

13.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

14.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

15.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

16.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

19.

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

Davis, Bette

20.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

21.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

22.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

23.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

25.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

26.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

27.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

28.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

29.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

30.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

31.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

32.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

33.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

34.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

37.

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

38.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Victor Hugo

40.

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

Duras, Marguerite

41.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

42.

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

Buddha

43.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

44.

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

Sophocles

45.

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.

46.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

47.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

48.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

49.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

50.

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