Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Proverb, Japanese

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

10.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

14.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

15.

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

16.

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

17.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

20.

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

Calvino, Italo

21.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

22.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

23.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

24.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

25.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

27.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

Marlowe, Christopher

28.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

30.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

31.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

32.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

36.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

37.

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

Delp, Alexis

38.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

39.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

40.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

41.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

42.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

43.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

44.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

45.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

46.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

47.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

49.

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.

50.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham