Motivational Quotes

Love

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

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

Parker, Dorothy

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

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

10.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

11.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Jeph Jacques

13.

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

14.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

15.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

16.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

17.

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

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

Real Live Preacher

21.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

22.

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

Augustine, St.

23.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

26.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

27.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

28.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

29.

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

Tomlin, Lily

30.

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

Hay, Louise L.

31.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

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

Nathan, George Jean

33.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

34.

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

Traherne, Thomas

35.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

36.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

37.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

38.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

39.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

40.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

41.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

42.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

43.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

44.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

45.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

46.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

47.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

48.

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

49.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

50.

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.