Motivational Quotes

Love

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Love

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Horton, Doug

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

10.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

11.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

12.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

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

Bible

14.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

15.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

17.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

20.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

21.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Billings, Josh

22.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

23.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

24.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

25.

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

Laing, R. D.

26.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

28.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

29.

It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.

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

31.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

32.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

33.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

35.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

36.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

37.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

38.

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

39.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

40.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

41.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

42.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

43.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

45.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

46.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

47.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

48.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

49.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

50.

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

Byron, Lord