Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

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

Leunig, Michael

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

10.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

11.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

12.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

13.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

14.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

15.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

16.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

17.

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

Byron, Lord

18.

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

19.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

21.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

22.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

23.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

24.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

25.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

26.

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

27.

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

Reagan, Ronald

28.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

29.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

30.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

31.

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

33.

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

34.

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.

35.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

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

William Shakespeare

37.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Bible

39.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

40.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

43.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

44.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

45.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

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

47.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

48.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

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

Laing, R. D.