Motivational Quotes

Love

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

10.

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

Bible

11.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

14.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

16.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

17.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

18.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

21.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

23.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

24.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

26.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

27.

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

Michael Patrick King

28.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

29.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

31.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

32.

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

33.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

34.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

36.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

38.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

39.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

40.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

41.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

43.

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

Confucius

44.

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

45.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

46.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

48.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

49.

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

50.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare