Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Carroll, Pat

Best Quotes about Love

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.

Hardenberg, Novalis

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

10.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

11.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

12.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

13.

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

14.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Magnani, Anna

15.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

16.

We always come back to our first love.

Etienne

17.

I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.

McKay, John

18.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Williams, Tennessee

19.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

20.

You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.

Randy K. Milholland

21.

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

22.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

23.

Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

24.

I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us

Williamson, Marianne

25.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

26.

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

27.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

28.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

29.

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

Tsvetaeva, Marina

30.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

31.

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

32.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

33.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

34.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

35.

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

36.

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

38.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Fielding, Henry

39.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

40.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

41.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

42.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

43.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.