Motivational Quotes

Love

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

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

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

13.

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

14.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

15.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

17.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

18.

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

19.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

20.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

21.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

22.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

Buddha

25.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

26.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

28.

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

29.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

30.

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

31.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

32.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

33.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

34.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

37.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

38.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

39.

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

Brown, David

40.

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

41.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

42.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

43.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

44.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.