Motivational Quotes

Love

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

- Harrigan, John

Best Quotes about Love

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

Oxenham, John

My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where.

William Shakespeare

He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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

John Sheffield

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Mansfield, Katherine

Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live

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

I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

Sergeevich, Ivan

If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

Love's best habit is a soothing tongue.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Menninger, Karl A.

14.

Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

Ann Radcliffe

17.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Eschenbach, Marie E.

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

Pilgrim, Peace

20.

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

21.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, I love you.

Graham, Billy

22.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

La Bruyere, Jean De

23.

To fail to love is not to exist at all.

Doren, Mark Van

24.

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.

Madonna

25.

A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

Auden, W. H.

26.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Thurber, James

27.

Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.

Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman

28.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

29.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

30.

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

Disney, Walt

31.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

33.

The one who loves least controls the relationship.

34.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

35.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

36.

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

Barry, Lynda

37.

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

38.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Angelis, Barbara De

39.

If we discovered we only had five minutes left to say all we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people telling other people that they loved them.

40.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Levine, Stephen

41.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

42.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transform.

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

43.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

44.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

45.

Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

46.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

47.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles

49.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.