Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Elizabeth Aston

Best Quotes about Love

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

10.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

12.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

13.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

14.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

15.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

16.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

17.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

21.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

29.

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

30.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

31.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

32.

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

Law, William

33.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

35.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

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

37.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

38.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

39.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

40.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

41.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

42.

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

43.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

44.

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

Carmichael, Amy

45.

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

46.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.