Motivational Quotes

Love

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

- John Scalzi

Best Quotes about Love

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

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

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

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

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

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Auerbach, Red

11.

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

12.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

13.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

14.

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

16.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.

Scherer, Paul

20.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

21.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

23.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

24.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

25.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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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

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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

28.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

34.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

38.

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

39.

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

40.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

41.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

42.

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

43.

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

44.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

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