Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Love

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

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

10.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

12.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

13.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

14.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

15.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

16.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

20.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

21.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

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

23.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

24.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

25.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

26.

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

Proverb, Japanese

27.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

28.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

29.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

31.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

32.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

33.

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

Byron, Lord

34.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

35.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

36.

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

Pascal, Blaise

37.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

38.

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

39.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

40.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

42.

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

43.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

44.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

45.

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

46.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

47.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

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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.