Motivational Quotes

Love

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

- Buber, Martin

Best Quotes about Love

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

12.

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

13.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

14.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

15.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

16.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

18.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

19.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

20.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

21.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

22.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

23.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

24.

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

25.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

27.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

28.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

29.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

30.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

31.

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

Byron, Lord

32.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

33.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

34.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

37.

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

38.

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

Jennifer Aniston

39.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

40.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

41.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

42.

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

Hertl, Nick

43.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

44.

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

DiFranco, Ani

45.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

46.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

47.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

48.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

50.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet