Motivational Quotes

Love

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

- Francis De Sales, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Angelis, Barbara 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

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

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.

John Sheffield

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

Southey, Robert

10.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Arendt, Hannah

11.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

12.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

13.

Love is stronger than violence.

Hesse, Hermann

14.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Stendhal, Henri B.

15.

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.

Barrie, Sir James M.

16.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

17.

By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy.

William Shakespeare

18.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

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

20.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

Barry, Lynda

21.

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

22.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

23.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

24.

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

William Shakespeare

25.

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

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

29.

A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the laughter stilled and the light extinguished.

Tebbets, Frank

30.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

31.

Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.

Kathryn L. Nelson

32.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Strong, Anna

34.

Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

35.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

36.

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

French, Marilyn

37.

Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.

38.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Murdoch, Iris

39.

Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

41.

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

Fromm, Erich

42.

You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Everything comes to us from others. To Be is to belong to someone.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

44.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

Schreiner, Olive

45.

It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Love is not only something you feel. It's something you do.

Wilkerson, David

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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.