Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

- Judalet, Curtis

Best Quotes about Love

1.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

2.

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

Fromm, Erich

3.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

4.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

5.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

7.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

8.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

9.

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

10.

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

Heinlein, Robert

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

12.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

13.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

14.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

16.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

17.

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

West, Mae

18.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

19.

The way to a woman's heart is through your wallet.

Dane, Frank

20.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

21.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

22.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

23.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

24.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

26.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

30.

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

Disney, Walt

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

33.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Breton, Andre

34.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

35.

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

Hay, Louise L.

36.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

39.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

40.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

41.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

42.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

44.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

45.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

46.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

47.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

48.

Love alone could waken love.

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

50.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar