Motivational Quotes

Love

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Love

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Shakespeare, William

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Fitzgerald, Zelda

The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.

William Shakespeare

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Byron, Lord

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

11.

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

Updike, John

12.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Rabbi Julius Gordon

13.

Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

14.

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

15.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

16.

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

Tracy, Brian

17.

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

Plato

18.

There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

20.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

21.

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

22.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

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.

25.

We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

Buber, Martin

26.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

27.

People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them.

Eucharista Ward

28.

Let no one believe that he has received the divine kiss, if he knows the truth without loving it or loves it without understanding it. But blessed is that kiss whereby not only is God recognized but also the Father is loved; for there is never full knowledge without perfect love.

Bernard, St.

29.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

30.

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

Seneca

31.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

32.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Duncan, Isadora

33.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

34.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

35.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance,'Tis kept by art.

Donne, John

37.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

38.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

39.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

40.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

41.

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

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

Disney, Walt

43.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

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Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

45.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Clenched Soul

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.
Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

Neruda, Pablo

48.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

50.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally