Motivational Quotes

Love

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Love

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

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

Brown, Rita Mae

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

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

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

Richardson, Nick

10.

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

11.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

12.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

13.

Forster, Edward M.

14.

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

Rita Rudner

15.

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

James, William

16.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

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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

18.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

21.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

22.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

23.

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

Willis, Bruce

24.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

25.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

26.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

27.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

28.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

30.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

31.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

32.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

33.

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

34.

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

Byron, Lord

35.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

36.

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

Anouilh, Jean

37.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

38.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

39.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

40.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

41.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

42.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

43.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

44.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

45.

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

William Shakespeare

46.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

47.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

48.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

49.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

50.

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