Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

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

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Brown, David

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

Pilgrim, Peace

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Kempis, Thomas

11.

Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.

Malory, Sir Thomas

12.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

13.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

14.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

15.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

16.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

17.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

18.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

19.

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

Murdoch, Iris

20.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

21.

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

Martineau, Harriet

22.

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

William Shakespeare

23.

No three words have greater power than I Love You.

24.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin-it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

Perelman, Sydney Joseph

27.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

28.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

29.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

30.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

31.

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

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Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

34.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Lawrence, D. H.

35.

The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.

Paolo Giordano

36.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

38.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

39.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

Tomlin, Lily

40.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

41.

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

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

42.

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

Tracy, Brian

43.

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

Carmichael, Amy

44.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

45.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Prevert, Jacques

46.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

47.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

48.

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

Buscaglia, Leo

49.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

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A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry