Motivational Quotes

Love

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

- Dorothy Parker

Best Quotes about Love

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

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

Blanton, Smiley

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

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.

Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world.

Haight, David B.

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

10.

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

12.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Elizabeth Aston

13.

Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.

Seabury, David

14.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

15.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

16.

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

17.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

18.

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

Orwell, George

19.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

20.

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

21.

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

Satir, Virginia

22.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

25.

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

26.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

27.

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

Bertrand Russell

28.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

31.

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

32.

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

33.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

34.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

35.

Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

36.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

37.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

38.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

39.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

Duras, Marguerite

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Gordon, Rabbi J.

44.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.

Hazlitt, William

45.

There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!

James, William

46.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

47.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Crawford, Joan

48.

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

49.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

50.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Disraeli, Benjamin