Motivational Quotes

Love

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

- John of the Cross, St.

Best Quotes about Love

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

William Shakespeare

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Corneille, Pierre

I leave before being left. I decide.

Bardot, Brigitte

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.

Proust, Marcel

The perversity of the human spirit is such that when a young lady longs for one specific partner, every other partner counts for nothing.

Monica Fairview

10.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

11.

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

Peguy, Charles

12.

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Blanton, Smiley

13.

Every man loves what he is good at.

Shadwell, Thomas

14.

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

Ice T

15.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Harrigan, John

17.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

18.

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

19.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Einstein, Albert

20.

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

Rita Rudner

21.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

Teasdale, Sara

22.

Love is the victim's response to the rapist.

Atkinson, Ti-Grace

23.

Love is a friendship set to music.

Cossman, E. Joseph

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

27.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott

28.

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

29.

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

30.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

31.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. George

Childs, Williams

32.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

33.

Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.

Hubbard, Elbert

34.

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

35.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth.

William Shakespeare

37.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

DiFranco, Ani

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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

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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Auerbach, Red

40.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

Sesame Street

41.

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you give or take away from him, so long as he keeps his beloved, he has a spring of inward peace. Thus, even though thy outward man grieve, or weep downright, that may well be borne, if only thy inner man remain at peace, perfectly content with the will of God.

Tauler, Johannes

42.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

Bailey, Pearl

43.

True love is the parent of humility.

Channing, William Ellery

44.

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

45.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

46.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Northern Exposure

47.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

49.

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

50.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar