Motivational Quotes

Love

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Love

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov

12.

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

13.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

14.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

15.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

16.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

17.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

18.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

19.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

20.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

22.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

23.

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

Southey, Robert

24.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

25.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

27.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

29.

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

30.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

31.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

32.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

33.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

34.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

35.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

36.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

37.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

38.

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

39.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

40.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

41.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

42.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

43.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

44.

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

45.

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

Law, William

46.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

47.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

48.

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.

49.

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

Dryden, John

50.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir