Motivational Quotes

Love

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

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

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

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

Sophocles

10.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

11.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

12.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

15.

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

16.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

17.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

18.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

19.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

20.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

21.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

22.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

23.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

26.

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

27.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

28.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

29.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

30.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

31.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Hugo, Victor

33.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

34.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

35.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

36.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

39.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

40.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

42.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

43.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

44.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

45.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

46.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

47.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

48.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

49.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

50.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.