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

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

Margaret Cho

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

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

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bertrand Russell

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

10.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

12.

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.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

13.

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

14.

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

15.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

16.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

17.

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

Kent, Sister Corita

18.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

19.

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

Charles M. Schulz

20.

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

21.

To always be loved one must ever be agreeable.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.

Hertl, Nick

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

25.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

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Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

27.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

29.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

30.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

31.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

34.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

35.

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Viorst, Judith

36.

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

37.

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

Jennifer Aniston

38.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

39.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

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If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground.

William Shakespeare

41.

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

43.

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

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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

45.

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

Wilkerson, David

46.

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

Disney, Walt

47.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

48.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

50.

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