Motivational Quotes

Love

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

- Becker, Ernest

Best Quotes about Love

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

Buscaglia, Leo

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

Horace

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Rossner, Judith

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Harrigan, John

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

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

10.

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

Eucharista Ward

11.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

12.

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

Paolo Giordano

13.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

14.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

15.

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

16.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

18.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

19.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

Capote, Truman

20.

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

21.

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.

22.

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

Hugo, Victor

23.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

24.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

25.

Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

26.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

27.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

28.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

29.

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

30.

Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild.

Delp, Alexis

31.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

32.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

33.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

34.

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

Sarton, May

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

38.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

39.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

40.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

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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

42.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

43.

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

Reagan, Ronald

44.

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.

45.

When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

46.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love

Einstein, Albert

47.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

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The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

49.

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

50.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare