Motivational Quotes

Love

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

- Arnold, Sir Edwin

Best Quotes about Love

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

David Viscott

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

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

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

Law, William

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

12.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

13.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

14.

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

Jennifer Aniston

15.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

16.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

17.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

18.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

19.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

20.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

21.

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

Wilde, Kim

22.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

23.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

24.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

25.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

27.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

28.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

30.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

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.

32.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

33.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

34.

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

35.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

36.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

39.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

40.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

41.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

42.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

43.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

45.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

46.

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

Levine, Stephen

47.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

48.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

49.

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

50.

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