Motivational Quotes

Love

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Menninger, Karl A.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

It is well to be happy and wise and well to be honest and true; it is well to be off with the old love, before you are on with the new.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

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

10.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

11.

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.

National Lampoon

12.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Brookner, Anita

14.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Donne, John

15.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Sophocles

17.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

18.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

19.

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

Randy K. Milholland

20.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

24.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

25.

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

Dryden, John

26.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

John of the Cross, St.

27.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

28.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

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.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

31.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

32.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Eliot, George

33.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

34.

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

36.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

37.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

38.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

39.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

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

Mencken, H. L.

41.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

Mother Teresa

42.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

Greer, Germaine

43.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

44.

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Baudrillard, Jean

45.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

46.

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

Sarton, May

47.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

48.

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

49.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

50.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider