Motivational Quotes

Love

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

- Donne, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.

Kempis, Thomas

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

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

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

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.

Ashley, Elizabeth

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted

Guthrie, Arlo

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

11.

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

12.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

13.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

14.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

17.

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

18.

Without His love I can do nothing, with His love there is nothing I cannot do.

19.

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.

20.

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

21.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

22.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

23.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

24.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

25.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

26.

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

Buddha

27.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Aristotle

28.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

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

30.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

31.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

32.

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

Durrell, Lawrence

33.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

34.

Lovers should also have their days off.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

36.

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

37.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

Borges, Jorge Luis

38.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

39.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

40.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

42.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

43.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

Prior, Matthew

44.

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

Randy K. Milholland

45.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

46.

How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

47.

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

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood --no more --to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

50.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich