Motivational Quotes

Love

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

10.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

11.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

12.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

13.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

14.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

15.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

16.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

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

18.

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

19.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

20.

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

21.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

22.

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.

23.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

24.

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

25.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

26.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Hugo, Victor

28.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

29.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

30.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

33.

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

David Viscott

35.

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

Plato

36.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

37.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

38.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

39.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

40.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

41.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

42.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Lennon, John

47.

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

48.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

49.

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

50.

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