Motivational Quotes

Love

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Love

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Charles M. Schulz

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

Donne, John

10.

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

Wilkerson, David

11.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

13.

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

14.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

15.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

16.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

17.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

18.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

19.

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker

20.

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

21.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

22.

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

Barry, Lynda

23.

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

24.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

25.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

26.

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

27.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

28.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

29.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

30.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

32.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

33.

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn't all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

34.

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

35.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

36.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

37.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

38.

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

39.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

40.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

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

43.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

44.

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

Mother Teresa

45.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

46.

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

47.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

48.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

49.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

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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