Motivational Quotes

Love

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

- Satir, Virginia

Best Quotes about Love

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Brown, David

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

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

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

10.

The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

13.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

14.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

15.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Wieder, Marcia

18.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

19.

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.

20.

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

Hay, Louise L.

21.

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

Bridges, Robert

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

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

24.

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

25.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

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Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

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

Mencken, H. L.

28.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

29.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

30.

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

31.

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

Paolo Giordano

32.

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

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

33.

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

34.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

35.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

36.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

37.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

38.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

39.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

40.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

42.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

Mooneyham, Stan

43.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

44.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

45.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

46.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

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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

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Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia