Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

2.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

3.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

4.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

5.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

6.

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

7.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Russell, Bertrand

8.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

9.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

10.

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

Tracy, Brian

11.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

12.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

13.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

15.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

16.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

17.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

18.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

20.

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

21.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

22.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

23.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

24.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

25.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

26.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

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

Hay, Louise L.

29.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

30.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

31.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

32.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

33.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

34.

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

Jerome, St.

35.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

36.

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

Law, William

37.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

38.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

39.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

40.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

42.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

43.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

45.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

46.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

47.

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

Pascal, Blaise

48.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

49.

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