Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

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

Jean Anouilh

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

10.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

11.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

12.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

13.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

18.

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

Sophocles

19.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

20.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

21.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

22.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

23.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

26.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

27.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Pavese, Cesare

30.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

31.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

34.

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

Julie Morgenstern

35.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

36.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

37.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

38.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

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

40.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

42.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

43.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace