Motivational Quotes

Love

Be that self which one truly is.

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Love

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

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

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

William Shakespeare

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

10.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

11.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

13.

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

14.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

16.

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

Smith, Sydney

17.

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

18.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

19.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

20.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

21.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

23.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

24.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

27.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

28.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

29.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

30.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Gogh, Vincent Van

31.

And ruin'd love when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

34.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

35.

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

36.

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

37.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

38.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

39.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

40.

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

Buber, Martin

41.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

42.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

43.

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

44.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

45.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

46.

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

Groening, Matt

47.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

48.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

49.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost