Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Osgood, Samuel

Best Quotes about Love

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.

Hugh Elliott

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Groening, Matt

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

10.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

12.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

13.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

14.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

15.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

16.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

19.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

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.

21.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

22.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

23.

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.

Kempis, Thomas

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

25.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

26.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

27.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

28.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

29.

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

30.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

Woolf, Virginia

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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit.

William Shakespeare

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People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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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

37.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

38.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

39.

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

40.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

41.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

43.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

44.

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

45.

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

46.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

47.

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

Jean Anouilh

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.