Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

2.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

4.

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

Dyer, Wayne

5.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

6.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

7.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

8.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

9.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

10.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

11.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

12.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

13.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

14.

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

15.

We live in the world when we love it.

Tagore, Rabindranath

16.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

17.

Love is not a matter of counting the years -- it's making the years count.

Smith, Wolfman Jack

18.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

19.

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

Wilkerson, David

20.

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

21.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

22.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

23.

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

Fromm, Erich

24.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

25.

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

26.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

27.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

28.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

32.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

34.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

35.

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

36.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

37.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

38.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

39.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

40.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

41.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

42.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

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

44.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

45.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

46.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

48.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

49.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

50.

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Groening, Matt

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