Motivational Quotes

Love

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

- Aquinas, St. Thomas

Best Quotes about Love

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

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

Steinfeld, Jake

My tears of love are a waste of time if I turn away

Wilde, Kim

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

10.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

11.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

12.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

13.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

15.

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

Euripides

16.

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

17.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

18.

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

David Viscott

19.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

20.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

21.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

22.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air.

William Shakespeare

23.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

24.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

25.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

27.

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

Proverb

28.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Byron, Lord

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

32.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

33.

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

Scott Westerfeld

34.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

36.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

37.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

38.

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

Smith, Wolfman Jack

39.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

40.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

41.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

42.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

46.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

47.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

48.

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

Hugo, Victor

49.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

50.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy