Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

10.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

11.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

13.

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

14.

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

William Shakespeare

15.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

16.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

17.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

18.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

22.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

23.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

25.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

26.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

27.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

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.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

30.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

31.

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

33.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

36.

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

37.

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

Bible

38.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

39.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

40.

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

41.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

43.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

44.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

45.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

46.

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

47.

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

49.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

50.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De