Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Gordon, Rabbi J.

Best Quotes about Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

11.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

12.

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

13.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

14.

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

Laing, R. D.

15.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

16.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

18.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

19.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

20.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

21.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

22.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

23.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

25.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

26.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

27.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

28.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

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.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

31.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Donne, John

33.

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.

34.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

35.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

36.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

37.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

38.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

40.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

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

William Shakespeare

43.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

44.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

45.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

46.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

48.

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

Ice T

49.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

50.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.