Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

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

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Ferry, Brian

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

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

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

10.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

11.

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

Thurber, James

12.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

13.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

14.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

17.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Real Live Preacher

20.

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

21.

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

Hay, Louise L.

22.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

23.

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

24.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

25.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

26.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

27.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

28.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

29.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

30.

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

32.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

33.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

34.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

35.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

36.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

38.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

39.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

40.

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

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

43.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

44.

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

45.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

46.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

47.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

48.

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

Reagan, Ronald

49.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

50.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann