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

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Updike, John

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way.

Desai, Yogi

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

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Einstein, Albert

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.

William Shakespeare

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

10.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

11.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Fox, Emmet

12.

Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.

Law, William

13.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.

Hugo, Victor

14.

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

15.

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

Steindl-Rast, David

16.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

Levine, Stephen

18.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

Teach only love for that is what you are.

A Course In Miracles

21.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Hay, Louise L.

22.

Greer, Germaine

23.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

24.

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Gordon, Rabbi J.

25.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

26.

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

Bible

27.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity.

William Shakespeare

28.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Socrates

29.

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Bridges, Robert

30.

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

Plato

31.

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

32.

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

33.

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits.

Williams, William Carlos

34.

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

Lennon, John

35.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Davies, Robertson

37.

If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

38.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

39.

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.

Rubinstein, Arthur

40.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

Duras, Marguerite

41.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

Winterson, Jeanette

42.

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Burton, Robert

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

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

47.

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

48.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

49.

And you are to love those who are your aliens for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. [Deuteronomy 10:19]

Bible

50.

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.