Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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

Buscaglia, Leo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

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

Fromm, Erich

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

13.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

14.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

15.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

16.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

17.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

20.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

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

Ferry, Brian

22.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

23.

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

24.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

25.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

26.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

27.

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

28.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

29.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

31.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

32.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

33.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

34.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

36.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

37.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

38.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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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

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Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

42.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

43.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

44.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

45.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

46.

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

47.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

48.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

49.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

50.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean