Motivational Quotes

Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Love

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

12.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

13.

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

Southey, Robert

14.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

15.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

16.

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

Byron, Lord

17.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

18.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

19.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

21.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

22.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

23.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

24.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

25.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

26.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

27.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

28.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

29.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

David Viscott

31.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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.

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

34.

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

35.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

36.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

37.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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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

39.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

40.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

41.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

42.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

43.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

45.

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

Blanton, Smiley

46.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

47.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

50.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell