Motivational Quotes

Love

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Love

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

Maltz, Maxwell

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

Strindberg, J. August

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Bette Davis

10.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Euripides

11.

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

Byron, Lord

12.

Only from the heart Can you touch the sky.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

13.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Traherne, Thomas

14.

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

Orwell, George

15.

There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.

Sand, George

16.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

17.

My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

18.

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

19.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

20.

After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Connolly, Cyril

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Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

23.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

24.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Sarton, May

26.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Elton, Ben

27.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

28.

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes... Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate; For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

William Shakespeare

30.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

31.

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Meredith, George

32.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

33.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

34.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

35.

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

Reagan, Ronald

36.

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

37.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

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

Rabbi Julius Gordon

39.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.

Horton, Doug

40.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove : O, no! it is an ever fixed mark.

William Shakespeare

41.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

42.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

43.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

44.

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

45.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

46.

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.