Motivational Quotes

Love

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

- Levine, Stephen

Best Quotes about Love

1.

This is my commandment, that ye love one another. [Jesus, In John 15:12]

Bible

2.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

3.

Our first and last love is... self-love.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

4.

Love touched her heart, and lo! It beats high, and burns with such brave hearts.

Crawshaw, Richard

5.

Love is like a poisonous mushroom -- you don't know if it is the real thing until it is too late

6.

Human Love... It is that extra creation that stands hurt and baffled at the place of death. Being human, wanting children and sunlight and breath to go on, forever.

Leach, Christopher

7.

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

8.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Pythagoras

9.

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Villon, Francois de Montcorbier

10.

Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.

Cholmondeley, Mary

11.

True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

12.

If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.

Oakley, Ann

13.

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

Stravinsky, Igor

14.

Love is inseparable from knowledge.

Macarius of Egypt, St.

15.

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

16.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

17.

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

18.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Kempton, Sally

19.

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

20.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Spencer, Herbert

21.

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

William Shakespeare

22.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

23.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Lynda Barry

24.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

Thoreau, Henry David

25.

Love without attachment is light.

Brown, Norman O.

26.

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

27.

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

Brown, David

28.

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

Love conquers all; let us surrender to Love.

Virgil

30.

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Bandler, Richard

31.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Fox, Emmet

32.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Julie Morgenstern

33.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Gibran, Kahlil

35.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

36.

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

37.

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

38.

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Battista, Orlando A.

39.

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

John of the Cross, St.

40.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Nin, Anais

41.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

William Shakespeare

42.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Duffy, Maureen

43.

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

John of the Cross, St.

44.

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

45.

Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.

Michael Masser and Linda Creed

46.

Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

Buddha

47.

We don't always get to choose what we love.

Scott Westerfeld

48.

Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.