Motivational Quotes

Love

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

- King Jr. Martin Luther

Best Quotes about Love

1.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Lois McMaster Bujold

2.

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Murdoch, Iris

3.

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

Federman, Irwin

4.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.

Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.

Law, William

6.

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.

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy.

William Shakespeare

9.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

West, Mae

10.

There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

He who is not impatient is not in love.

Proverb, Italian

12.

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Brown, Rita Mae

13.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

Byron, Lord

14.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

15.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Calvino, Italo

16.

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

Seneca

17.

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

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

18.

One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.

Arnold, Sir Edwin

19.

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

20.

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

DiFranco, Ani

21.

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

22.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

Parker, Dorothy

23.

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.

Proverb

24.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

25.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

26.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tzu

27.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

Bruyere, Jean De La

28.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Stravinsky, Igor

29.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

O, how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an April day!

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

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

Victor Hugo

33.

Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.

Brown, David

34.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

35.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]

Shakespeare, William

36.

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

Thurber, James

37.

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

Jean Anouilh

38.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Heinlein, Robert

39.

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

40.

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

41.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

42.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

43.

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

Confucius

44.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

45.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.