Motivational Quotes

Love

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

- John Sheffield

Best Quotes about Love

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

Stanislavisky, Konstantin

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.

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Drummond, Henry

Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies.

All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Carmichael, Amy

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

William Shakespeare

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

11.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Powell, Anthony

12.

Love is a ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Drewar, Lord

13.

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

14.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

Freud, Sigmund

15.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

16.

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

17.

Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit to her own annihilation. The proof of love is that she is willing to be destroyed by the one whom she loves, for his sake. For the woman, love is always self-sacrifice, the sacrifice of identity, will, and bodily integrity, in order to fulfill and redeem the masculinity of her lover.

Dworkin, Andrea

18.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Camus, Albert

19.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour; for a day, for a month, but I can give and I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

22.

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

23.

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

24.

In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

John of the Cross, St.

25.

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

26.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

27.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca

28.

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

29.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

31.

One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Love's pure silver flame gives each innermost spirit invisible warmth.

Verse, A Haiku

33.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

34.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

Smith, Sydney

36.

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

37.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

38.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

Russell, Kurt

39.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

Byron, Lord

40.

We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility.

Auden, W. H.

41.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

42.

My mistress'eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips'red... I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound.

William Shakespeare

43.

In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

44.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Chanel, Coco

45.

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

Thurber, James

46.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

47.

When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral nature, we already understand the essence of love. Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

Becker, Ernest

48.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

Martineau, Harriet

49.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together.

Duras, Marguerite

50.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Fromm, Erich