Motivational Quotes

Love

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

- Kent, Sister Corita

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

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

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Bible

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

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

Scherer, Paul

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

10.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

12.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

13.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

16.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

19.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

20.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

21.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

22.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

23.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

24.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

25.

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

26.

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

27.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

28.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Youngman, Henny

29.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

30.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

31.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Durrell, Lawrence

32.

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

33.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

34.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

35.

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

36.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

37.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

38.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

39.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

40.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

41.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

42.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

43.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

44.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

46.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

47.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

48.

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

Law, William

49.

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

National Lampoon

50.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani