Motivational Quotes

Love

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.

Chambless, David

10.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

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

12.

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

Proverb, Jewish

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

15.

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.

16.

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

West, Mae

17.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

18.

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

Rossetti, Christina

19.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

20.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Dyer, Wayne

22.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

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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

24.

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

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

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

Van Gogh, Vincent

27.

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

28.

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

National Lampoon

29.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

Lawrence, D. H.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Paolo Giordano

33.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

34.

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Segal, Erich

35.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Disney, Walt

36.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

37.

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

38.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

39.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

40.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

41.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

42.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

43.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

44.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

45.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

46.

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

Paolo Giordano

47.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Orwell, George

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Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic