Motivational Quotes

Love

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

- West, Mae

Best Quotes about Love

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Menninger, Karl A.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare, William

Love is the bridge between two hearts.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.

Williamson, Marianne

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

10.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

11.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

12.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

13.

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

Brown, Rita Mae

14.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

15.

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

Law, William

16.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

17.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

18.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

19.

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

20.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

21.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

22.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

23.

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.

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

25.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Tomlin, Lily

27.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

28.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

29.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

30.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

32.

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

33.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

34.

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

35.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

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The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

39.

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

40.

Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

41.

It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.

Saltus, Edgar

42.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

43.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

44.

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

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Rainer Maria Rilke

46.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

47.

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

William Shakespeare

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Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The Song Of Solomon 2:5]

Bible

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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