Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Love

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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

Donne, John

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

10.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

11.

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

Randy K. Milholland

12.

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

Dryden, John

13.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

14.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

15.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

16.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

17.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

18.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

19.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

20.

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

William Shakespeare

21.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

22.

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

23.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

24.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

25.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

28.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

29.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

30.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

31.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

32.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

33.

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

34.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

35.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

36.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

37.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

38.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

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.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

42.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

43.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

44.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

45.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

46.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

48.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.