Motivational Quotes

Love

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

10.

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

Meredith, George

11.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

13.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

15.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

16.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

17.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

18.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

19.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

20.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

21.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

22.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

23.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

24.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

26.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

27.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

28.

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

William Penn

29.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

30.

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

31.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

32.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

33.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

36.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

38.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

39.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

40.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

41.

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

42.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

43.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

44.

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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

48.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

50.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare