Motivational Quotes

Love

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

- Anderson, Margaret

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

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

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

10.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Proverb, Jewish

12.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

14.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

15.

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

Blanton, Smiley

16.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

17.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

19.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

20.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Hugo, Victor

23.

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

Clark, Melanie

24.

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

Law, William

25.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

26.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

28.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

29.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

30.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

31.

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

Euripides

32.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

33.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

35.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

36.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

38.

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

39.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

40.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

41.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

42.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

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

Brooke, Rupert

44.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

45.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

46.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

47.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

48.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

49.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

50.

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.