Motivational Quotes

Love

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

- Duncan, Isadora

Best Quotes about Love

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Augustine, St.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

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

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

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

What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?

Southey, Robert

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

Ackerman, Diane

10.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon -- it's time to cash in.

West, Mae

11.

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.

12.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

13.

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.

14.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

15.

This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

17.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Ovid

18.

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

19.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

20.

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

21.

Be that self which one truly is.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

22.

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Baudelaire, Charles

23.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

25.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

Confucius

26.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?

William Shakespeare

27.

The only victory over love is flight.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

30.

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

31.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

32.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

33.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Scott Westerfeld

36.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

37.

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Swift, Jonathan

38.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

39.

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Jiminez, Juan Ramon

40.

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

41.

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

Aristotle

42.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

43.

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

44.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

45.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

46.

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

Davies, Robertson

47.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Plato

48.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

49.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.