Motivational Quotes

Love

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

- Auden, W. H.

Best Quotes about Love

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

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

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

Parker, Dorothy

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

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.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

13.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

14.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

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.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

17.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

18.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

19.

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.

20.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

21.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

22.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

23.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

24.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

25.

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

26.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

27.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

33.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

34.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

35.

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

Randy K. Milholland

36.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

37.

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

Julie Morgenstern

38.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

39.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

40.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

41.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

42.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

43.

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

44.

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

45.

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

46.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Lennon, John

47.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

48.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

49.

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

William Shakespeare

50.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.