Motivational Quotes

Love

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

- Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Best Quotes about Love

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

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

Plato

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

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

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

10.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Buber, Martin

11.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

12.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

14.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

15.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

16.

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

William Shakespeare

17.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

18.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

19.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

20.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

21.

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.

22.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Mother Teresa

23.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

24.

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Byron, Lord

25.

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

Sarton, May

26.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

27.

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

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

Paolo Giordano

29.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell

30.

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

31.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

32.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

33.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

34.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

35.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

36.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

37.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

38.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

39.

When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

40.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

Love is everything it's cracked up to beàIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Erica Jong

42.

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.

43.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

44.

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

West, Mae

45.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

46.

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

47.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

48.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

49.

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

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A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo