Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Michael Patrick King

Best Quotes about Love

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

William Shakespeare

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Margaret Cho

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

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

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

10.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

12.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

13.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

14.

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

15.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

16.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

17.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

18.

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

20.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

22.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

23.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

24.

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

Leunig, Michael

25.

You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.

Clark, Melanie

26.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

27.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

28.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

31.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

32.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

33.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

34.

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

Heinlein, Robert

35.

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

Pascal, Blaise

36.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

37.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

38.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long.

William Shakespeare

40.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

41.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

42.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

45.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

46.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

47.

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

48.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

49.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

50.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas