Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

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

William Shakespeare

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

10.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

11.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

12.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

13.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

16.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

17.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

18.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

19.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

20.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

21.

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

22.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

26.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

27.

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

28.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

29.

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

Pascal, Blaise

30.

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

31.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

32.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

33.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

34.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

36.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

37.

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Lao-Tzu

40.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

41.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

42.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

43.

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

44.

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

45.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

46.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

47.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

48.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

49.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

50.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney