Motivational Quotes

Love

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Love

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

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

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Lao-Tzu

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

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

William Shakespeare

10.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

11.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

12.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

13.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

14.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

15.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

16.

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

Capote, Truman

17.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

18.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

19.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

20.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

22.

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

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It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

28.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

29.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

30.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

31.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

32.

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

Harrigan, John

33.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

34.

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

Saltus, Edgar

35.

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

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

39.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

40.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

41.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

42.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved, by others. (Wizard to the Tin Man)

Movie, Wizard of Oz

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

44.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

46.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

48.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

49.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Fromm, Erich