Motivational Quotes

Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

- Matthews, Andrew

Best Quotes about Love

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

William Shakespeare

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

Jeph Jacques

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

11.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

14.

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

Buber, Martin

15.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

16.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

17.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

18.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

19.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

20.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

24.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

25.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

28.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

29.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

30.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

31.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

32.

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

33.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

34.

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

Augustine, St.

35.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

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

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

40.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

41.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

42.

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

43.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

46.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

47.

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

48.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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.

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Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare