Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

- Lynda Barry

Best Quotes about Love

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Arnold, Sir Edwin

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

10.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

11.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

12.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

13.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara De

14.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Aragon, Louis

16.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

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Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Behn, Aphra

18.

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

Hay, Louise L.

19.

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

20.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

21.

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

Heinlein, Robert

22.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

23.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

24.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

25.

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

26.

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

Jennifer Aniston

27.

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

Steinfeld, Jake

28.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

30.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

31.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

32.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

33.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

34.

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

Meredith, George

35.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

37.

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

38.

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

Williams, William Carlos

39.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

40.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

41.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

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We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

43.

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

Paolo Giordano

44.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

45.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

48.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

49.

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. [John 13:35]

Bible

50.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.