Motivational Quotes

Love

You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Love

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.

Croft, Roy

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

My love admits no qualifying dross.

William Shakespeare

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

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

Sophocles

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

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

12.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

14.

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

15.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

16.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

17.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

18.

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

19.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

21.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

22.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

23.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

24.

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

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Von

25.

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

Delp, Alexis

26.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

27.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

28.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

29.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

30.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

32.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

35.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

38.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

39.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

40.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

41.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

42.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

43.

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

44.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

45.

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

Connolly, Cyril

46.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

47.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

48.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce