Motivational Quotes

Love

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Love

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

William Shakespeare

Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Hazlitt, William

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Stael, Germaine De

The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Fromm, Erich

10.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Eliot, T. S.

12.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Gogh, Vincent Van

13.

Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you.

Fromm, Erich

14.

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

DiFranco, Ani

15.

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Voltaire

16.

You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

17.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

18.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

19.

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

20.

Love, while you are able to love.

Frieligrath, A.

21.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

22.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

Randy K. Milholland

24.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

Lawrence, D. H.

25.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Oates, Joyce Carol

26.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Fromm, Erich

28.

A woman who could always love would never grow old; and the love of mother and wife would often give or preserve many charms if it were not too often combined with parental and conjugal anger. There remains in the face of women who are naturally serene and peaceful, and of those rendered so by religion, an after-spring, and later an after-summer, the reflex of their most beautiful bloom.

Richter, Jean Paul

29.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

30.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

31.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Pavese, Cesare

32.

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

33.

Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

34.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

35.

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

36.

There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.

Maintenon, Francoise D'Aubegne

37.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

38.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Barthes, Roland

39.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

40.

To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

Petrarch, Francesco

41.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. [I John]

Bible

42.

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

43.

The only victory over love is flight.