Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Love

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

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

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Euripides

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

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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

Chanel, Coco

10.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

12.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

13.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

16.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

17.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

18.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

19.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

20.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

21.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

22.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

23.

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

Vicious, Sid

24.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

25.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

26.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

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

Proverb, Japanese

28.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

29.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

30.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

32.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

33.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

36.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

37.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

38.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

41.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

43.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

Real Live Preacher

45.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

46.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

47.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

49.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

50.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales