Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Best Quotes about Love

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

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

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

William Shakespeare

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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

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.

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

11.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

12.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

17.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

18.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

19.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Bible

24.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

25.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

26.

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.

27.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

29.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

31.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

32.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

33.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

35.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

36.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

37.

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

Reik, Theodor

38.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

40.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

41.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

42.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

43.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

44.

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

45.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

46.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

47.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

48.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

Southey, Robert

50.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John