Motivational Quotes

Love

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Love

1.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

2.

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

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

4.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

6.

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

Bertrand Russell

7.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

10.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

12.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

14.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

15.

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

16.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

17.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

18.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

20.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

21.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

22.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

24.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

25.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

26.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

27.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

30.

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

Disney, Walt

31.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

32.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

33.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

34.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

35.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

36.

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

Eschenbach, Marie E.

37.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

38.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

39.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

40.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

41.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

44.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

45.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

50.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette