Motivational Quotes

Love

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

- Jane Austen

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

DiFranco, Ani

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

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment. [Philippians 1:9]

Bible

10.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

12.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

13.

Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

15.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

17.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

18.

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

Pascal, Blaise

19.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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

21.

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

24.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

26.

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

Laing, R. D.

27.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

29.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

31.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

32.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

33.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

35.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

36.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

39.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

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

Tracy, Brian

41.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

42.

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

43.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

44.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

45.

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

47.

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

48.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

49.

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

Jerome, St.

50.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha