Motivational Quotes

Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Love

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

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

Traherne, Thomas

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

10.

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

11.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

12.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

15.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

16.

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

17.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

18.

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

19.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

20.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

22.

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

Rowland, Helen

23.

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

24.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

25.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

26.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

27.

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.

28.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

29.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

30.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

31.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

32.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

33.

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.

34.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

35.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

36.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

37.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

38.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

39.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

40.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

41.

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

Suttner, Bertha Von

42.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

43.

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

Delp, Alexis

44.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

45.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

47.

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

48.

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

Bible

49.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

50.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen