Motivational Quotes

Love

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

10.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

11.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

12.

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

14.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

15.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

16.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

17.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

18.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

19.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

20.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

21.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

22.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

23.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

24.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

25.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

29.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

30.

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

Julie Morgenstern

31.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

33.

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

34.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

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

Hertl, Nick

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

39.

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

Auerbach, Red

40.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

41.

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

42.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

43.

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

Brooke, Rupert

44.

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

45.

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

46.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De