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

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

Elizabeth Aston

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

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.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

10.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

11.

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

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

14.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

15.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

16.

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

Buddha

17.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

18.

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

19.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

20.

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

21.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Levine, Stephen

23.

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

24.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

25.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

26.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

27.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

28.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

29.

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

Murdoch, Iris

30.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

31.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

32.

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

Rowland, Helen

33.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

34.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

35.

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

Lennon, John

36.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

37.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

38.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

40.

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

William Shakespeare

41.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

42.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

43.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

44.

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

Wieder, Marcia

45.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

46.

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