Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Rubinstein, Arthur

Best Quotes about Love

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Mother Teresa

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

13.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

Horton, Doug

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

19.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Jane Austen

20.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

21.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Tracy, Brian

22.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

23.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

24.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

25.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

26.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Chambless, David

29.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

30.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

31.

A heart that loves is always young.

Proverb, Greek

32.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

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

Carmichael, Amy

34.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

37.

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

38.

When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

39.

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

40.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

41.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

42.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Byron, Lord

43.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

44.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

45.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Hay, Louise L.

47.

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

Fromm, Erich

48.

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

49.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

50.

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