Motivational Quotes

Love

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

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

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

10.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

11.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

12.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

13.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

14.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

15.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

16.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

17.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

18.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

19.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

20.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

21.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

22.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

23.

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

24.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

25.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

26.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

27.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

28.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

29.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

30.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

31.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

32.

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

Parker, Dorothy

33.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

34.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Dryden, John

37.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

38.

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

Auerbach, Red

39.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

40.

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

Nathan, George Jean

41.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

42.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

44.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

49.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

50.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo