Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

- Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Best Quotes about Love

1.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

2.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

3.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

4.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

6.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

7.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

8.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

9.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

10.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

11.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

12.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

13.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

14.

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

Traherne, Thomas

15.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

16.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

17.

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

18.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

21.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

22.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

23.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

24.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

25.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

26.

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

Voltaire

27.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

29.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

30.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

31.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

32.

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

Reagan, Ronald

33.

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

34.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

35.

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

36.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

37.

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

Shakespeare, William

38.

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

39.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

40.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

41.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

42.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

43.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

44.

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

45.

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

Willis, Bruce

46.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

47.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

48.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De