Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Eliot, T. S.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

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

Willis, Bruce

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

10.

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

11.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

15.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

16.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

17.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

18.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

19.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

20.

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

Bible

21.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

22.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

26.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

27.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

29.

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

Mcdonald, George

30.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

31.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

32.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

33.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

34.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

38.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

39.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

40.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

41.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

42.

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

Hugo, Victor

43.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

44.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

47.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

48.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

49.

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

50.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet