Motivational Quotes

Love

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Love

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

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

Chevalier, Maurice

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

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

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

10.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

12.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

14.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

15.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

16.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

Horton, Doug

19.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

20.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

21.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

22.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

23.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

25.

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

Guest, Judith

26.

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

Mencken, H. L.

27.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

28.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

29.

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

30.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

31.

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

32.

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

Mencken, H. L.

33.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Bourget, Paul

34.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

35.

It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

Mcdonald, George

36.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

37.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

38.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

39.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

40.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

41.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

Du Coeur

42.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

43.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

44.

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

45.

For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

48.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

49.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Kempis, Thomas