Motivational Quotes

Love

Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

- Guest, Judith

Best Quotes about Love

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

Davies, Robertson

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

Fitzgerald, Zelda

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

William Shakespeare

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.

Matthews, Andrew

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

10.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent

11.

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

Hirschfield, Mangnu

12.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

13.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

Horton, Doug

14.

O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!

William Shakespeare

15.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

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

17.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Mencken, H. L.

18.

Belike you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together.

William Shakespeare

19.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Roethke, Theodore

20.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

21.

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

Dryden, John

22.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

23.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

24.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

25.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see What petty follies they themselves commit

Shakespeare, William

26.

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Donne, John

27.

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

28.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

29.

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

30.

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

Voltaire

31.

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's soul.

Joyce, James

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

34.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

35.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

36.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Francis De Sales, St.

37.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Hugo, Victor

38.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

39.

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Rhinehart, Mary Roberts

40.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

41.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone -- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

Davis, Bette

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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken -- and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Mitchell, Margaret

43.

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

Parker, Dorothy

44.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry

Willis, Bruce

45.

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

Federman, Irwin

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True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.