Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Love

1.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

2.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

3.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

4.

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

Julie Morgenstern

5.

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

DiFranco, Ani

6.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Laing, R. D.

7.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

8.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

9.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

10.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

11.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

14.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

16.

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

Dane, Frank

17.

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

18.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

19.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

20.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

21.

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

Ackerman, Diane

22.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

23.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

24.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Allen, Woody

25.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

29.

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

30.

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

Jennifer Aniston

31.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

32.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

33.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

34.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

35.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

36.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

39.

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

40.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

42.

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

43.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

Rowland, Helen

45.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

46.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

47.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

49.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano