Motivational Quotes

Love

The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity -- love. And the story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

- Hayes, Helen

Best Quotes about Love

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.

Steinfeld, Jake

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

Law, William

We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

Sarton, May

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

Brown, Les

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Confucius

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

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

10.

'Light fuse and get away'may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Jeph Jacques

11.

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

Elizabeth Aston

12.

Now my love is thaw'd; which, like a waxen image'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was.

William Shakespeare

13.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

14.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

15.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Pascal, Blaise

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

19.

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

20.

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

Davies, Robertson

21.

It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

22.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Shan, Merle

23.

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.

24.

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

25.

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

Wycherley, William

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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

27.

If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

Turner, Ted

28.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Hepburn, Katharine

29.

Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

30.

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

Pavese, Cesare

31.

Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.

Ice T

32.

Dive deep, O mind, dive deep in the ocean of God's beauty! If you descend to the uttermost depths, there you will find the gem of love.

Hymn, Bengali

33.

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

34.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

38.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

39.

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

Reik, Theodor

40.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Bruyere, Jean De La

41.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

42.

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Lessing, Doris

43.

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.

Ginsberg, Louis

44.

I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Nathan, George Jean

48.

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

49.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

50.

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