Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Love

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

10.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

11.

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

12.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

14.

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

15.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

16.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

17.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

20.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

21.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

22.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

23.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

24.

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

25.

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

26.

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

27.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

28.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

29.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

33.

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

34.

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.

35.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

36.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

37.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

38.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

39.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

40.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

41.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

42.

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

43.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

44.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

45.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

46.

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

David Viscott

47.

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.

48.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

49.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

50.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren