Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- Fromm, Erich

Best Quotes about Love

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

Dryden, John

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.

Karen Sunde

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

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

10.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Leunig, Michael

11.

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

12.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

13.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

14.

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

15.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

16.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

17.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

19.

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

20.

I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people?s hands, people used to be shocked because they?d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

22.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Gandhi, Mahatma

23.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

William Shakespeare

24.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

I shall always be a priest of love.

Lawrence, D. H.

26.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

27.

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

Pavese, Cesare

28.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz

29.

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

Fromm, Erich

30.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Disney, Walt

31.

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

Irving, Washington

32.

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

William Shakespeare

33.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

34.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

35.

A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

Angelou, Maya

36.

Love is the last relay and ultimate outposts of eternity.

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel

37.

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.

38.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

39.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Brooke, Rupert

40.

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

Orwell, George

41.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

42.

Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

44.

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... [1 John 3:14]

Bible

45.

You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.

Randy K. Milholland

46.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Jeanne Moreau

47.

Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.

48.

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

William Shakespeare

49.

People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.

Matthews, Andrew

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich