Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Bruyere, Jean De

Best Quotes about Love

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

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

10.

If I love you Wednesday, What is that to you? I do not love you Thursday -- so much is true.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

12.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

13.

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

Bible

14.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

15.

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

16.

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

Proverb, Irish

17.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

20.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

21.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

24.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

25.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

26.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

27.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

28.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

29.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

30.

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.

31.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

32.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

33.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

35.

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

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Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

38.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

39.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

41.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

42.

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

Groening, Matt

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

45.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

46.

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

47.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

49.

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

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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les