Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Laing, R. D.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

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

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

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

10.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

11.

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

12.

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

Byron, Lord

13.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

14.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

15.

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

Sarton, May

16.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

17.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

18.

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

19.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

20.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

21.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

22.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

23.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

24.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

25.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

26.

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

27.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

28.

I donÆt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given.

Real Live Preacher

29.

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

30.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

31.

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

32.

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

Ovid

33.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

34.

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

35.

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

36.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

37.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

38.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

39.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

42.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Donne, John

45.

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

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Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

48.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

49.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

50.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt