Motivational Quotes

Love

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

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

Wieder, Marcia

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

Michael Patrick King

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

10.

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.

11.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

12.

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

13.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

14.

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

Jean Anouilh

15.

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

16.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

17.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

19.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

20.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

21.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

22.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

23.

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

24.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

25.

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

Delp, Alexis

26.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

27.

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

28.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

29.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

31.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

32.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

33.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

34.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

35.

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

36.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

37.

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

38.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

40.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

41.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

42.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

43.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

44.

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

45.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

47.

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

Smith, Sydney

48.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

49.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

50.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John