Motivational Quotes

Love

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

- Rilke, Rainer Maria

Best Quotes about Love

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

10.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich

11.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

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

Martineau, Harriet

14.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

15.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

20.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Charles M. Schulz

25.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

27.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

28.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

29.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

30.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

32.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

33.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

34.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

35.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

36.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

37.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

38.

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

39.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

40.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

41.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

45.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

46.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

47.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

48.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

49.

LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.

50.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy