Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

- Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Best Quotes about Love

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

Federman, Irwin

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

Jeph Jacques

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Young, Margaret

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Warhol, Andy

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.

Rowland, Helen

She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.

Paolo Giordano

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Bolen, Jean Shinoda

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Child, Lydia M.

10.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

11.

What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

Gay, John

12.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

13.

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

14.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Proverb, Jewish

15.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Jane Austen

16.

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

17.

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

Elizabeth Aston

18.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well --but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

Hazzard, Shirley

19.

To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

20.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise.

William Shakespeare

21.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

Augustine, St.

22.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

23.

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

24.

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

25.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Augustine, St.

26.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

27.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

28.

The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard --it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much.

Forster, Edward M.

29.

Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Sergeevich, Ivan

32.

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

Disney, Walt

33.

Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

34.

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

Thurber, James

35.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Hurston, Zora Neale

36.

Blue eyes say, Love me or I die; black eyes say, Love me or I kill thee.

Proverb, Spanish

37.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

38.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Freud, Sigmund

39.

Love is begun by time; and that I see in passages of proof, time qualifies the spark and fire of it. There lives within the very flame of love a kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

William Shakespeare

40.

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination.

Trefusis, Violet

41.

One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

42.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Irving, Washington

44.

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

Plato

45.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

Jane Austen

46.

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

47.

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

48.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

49.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

50.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare