Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

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

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

11.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

13.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

14.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

15.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

16.

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

17.

As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

18.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

20.

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

Calvino, Italo

21.

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

22.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

23.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

25.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

26.

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

Dryden, John

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

30.

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

31.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

33.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

34.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

35.

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

Hertl, Nick

36.

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

37.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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

40.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

41.

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

42.

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

43.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

44.

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

Connolly, Cyril

45.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

47.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

48.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

49.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

50.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.