Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to little.

More, Hannah

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lao-Tzu

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

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

Hay, Louise L.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

10.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

11.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

12.

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

13.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

14.

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

15.

Real love stories never have endings.

Bach, Richard

16.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

17.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

18.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

19.

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

Breton, Andre

20.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

21.

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

Bible

22.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

23.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

25.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

26.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

27.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

28.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

30.

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

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

33.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

34.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

35.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

36.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

37.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

38.

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

39.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

40.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

41.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

42.

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

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

43.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

44.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

45.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

46.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

47.

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

Pascal, Blaise

48.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

49.

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

50.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De