Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is a serious mental disease.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

10.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

11.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

12.

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

Bourget, Paul

13.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

14.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

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

National Lampoon

16.

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

17.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

18.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

19.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

21.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Confucius

23.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

24.

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

Elizabeth Aston

25.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

26.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

27.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

28.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

29.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

30.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

31.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

33.

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.

34.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

35.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

36.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

37.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

38.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

39.

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

Hugo, Victor

40.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

41.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Harrigan, John

46.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

47.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

48.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

49.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

50.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren