Motivational Quotes

Love

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

Best Quotes about Love

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

Steindl-Rast, David

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Luce, Clare Boothe

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

Love is the cheapest of religions.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.

William Penn

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

12.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

14.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

15.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

16.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

17.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.

19.

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

Hardenberg, Novalis

20.

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

21.

Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits.

Diane Ackerman

22.

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

Murdoch, Iris

23.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Bruyere, Jean De La

24.

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

Fromm, Erich

25.

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.

Federman, Irwin

26.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

Yates, Douglas

27.

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

28.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

29.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

30.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

31.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Neruda, Pablo

34.

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

35.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

36.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Anouilh, Jean

37.

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

Lawrence, D. H.

38.

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

Alan Watts

39.

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

40.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Layton, Irving

41.

There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.

David Foster

42.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Rand, Ayn

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Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Lennon, John

44.

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.

45.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

Hirschfield, Mangnu

46.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

O'Brien, Edna

47.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

48.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

49.

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

Elizabeth Aston

50.

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love