Motivational Quotes

Love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

- Matthews, Andrew

Best Quotes about Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Ferry, Brian

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Sophocles

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Osgood, Samuel

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Vicious, Sid

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

10.

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

11.

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

12.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

15.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

16.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

17.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

18.

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

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

20.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

21.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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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

24.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

25.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

26.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

27.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

29.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

30.

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

Proverb, Japanese

31.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

32.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

33.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

34.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

35.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

36.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

37.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

39.

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

40.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

41.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

42.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

43.

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

Dryden, John

44.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

46.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

47.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

48.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

49.

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

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

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