Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

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

Lao-Tzu

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

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

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

10.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

11.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

12.

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

Davies, Robertson

13.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

14.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

15.

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

16.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

21.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

22.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

23.

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

24.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

25.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

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Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

28.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

31.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Zukav, Gary

32.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

33.

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

Jeph Jacques

34.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

35.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

36.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

37.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

38.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

40.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

41.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Martineau, Harriet

43.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

44.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

45.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

46.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

47.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Ackerman, Diane

49.

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

Nathan, George Jean

50.

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